Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 75
But when the High King of Ireland asks us to marry him we do not refuse, for it is not a thing that we shall be asked to do every day in the week, and there is no woman in the world but would love to rule it in Tara.
Who acts: High King, we, thought, woman · What happens: ask, marry, not refuse, not be, do, be · To what, where: us, King, we, thought, Tara
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High King, we, thought, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 refuse | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 asks | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asks | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 8 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 refuse | advcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 asks | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 marry | mark |
| 11 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asks | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 marry | obj |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 refuse | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 refuse | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 refuse | advmod |
| 16 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 thing | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 thing | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 refuse | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 asked | obj |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 asked | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 asked | aux:pass |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 thing | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 asked | xcomp |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 do | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 week | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 week | det |
| 35 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 do | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 is | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 is | cc |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 is | expl |
| 39 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 refuse | conj |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 woman | det |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 is | nsubj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 world | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 world | det |
| 44 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woman | nmod |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 love | cc |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 love | aux |
| 47 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refuse | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 rule | mark |
| 49 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 love | xcomp |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 rule | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 Tara | case |
| 52 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 rule | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the High King of Ireland | us | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | the High King of Ireland not said here | King | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not refuse | present · do-support | we | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | thought | for a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | shall · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | day; week | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | be | present | no woman in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | love | would | we not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | rule not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | thought | Tara | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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