Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 31

We do not know what ill he could do to the fairies, but during Dermod’s reign the world said its prayers on Sunday and the Shi’ folk stayed in their hills.

Who acts: We, king, world, prayers · What happens: not know, do, say, stay, pray · To what, where: hills · 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 (We, king, world, prayers), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ill	nsubj
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fairies	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fairies	det
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
15	during	during	ADP	_	18 reign	case
16	Dermod	Dermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reign	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Dermod	case
18	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 prayers	nmod:poss
23	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stayed	nsubj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 Sunday	case
25	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 prayers	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 folk	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Shi	det
28	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 folk	nmod:poss
29	’	's	PART	_	28 Shi	case
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prayers	conj
31	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hills	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hills	nmod:poss
34	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stayed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	We				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	could	king			to the fairies	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the world		during Dermod's reign		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stay	past	world's prayers on Sunday and the Shi's folk	fairies's hills			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location
5	pray		world			on Sunday	nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=obl

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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