Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24

“Let the luck come that will come,” she answered.

Who acts: luck, that, journey · What happens: let, come, answer · To what, where: luck · 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 (luck, that, journey), 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	12 answered	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 luck	det
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 come	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the luck	tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive	the luck not said here		tree rules
3	come in a quote	future	that		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	journey		tree rules

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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