Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25
“To keep a cat from cream or a woman from her gear is not work for a king,” said the monarch severely.
Who acts: gear, monarch · What happens: keep, not be, say · To what, where: cat, cream · 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 (gear, 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 | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 keep | mark |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cream | case |
| 7 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 woman | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cream | conj |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 work | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 work | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 work | advmod |
| 16 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 monarch | det |
| 24 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | a cat | cream or a woman | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cat=Beneficiary from cream=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | journey's gear | for a king; work property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the monarch | severely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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