Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17
“Let it be so,” she replied, and she dressed rapidly.
Who acts: engagement, monarch · What happens: let, be, reply, dress · To what, where: engagement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (engagement, monarch), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 be | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dressed | nsubj |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | advcl |
| 14 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 dressed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | engagement | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | infinitive | engagement not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | monarch | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dress | past | monarch | rapidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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