Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 44
“Yet,” said Becfola, “if we continue to walk straight on we shall arrive somewhere.”
Who acts: Becfola, we · What happens: say, continue, walk, arrive · 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 (Becfola, we), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yet | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yet | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continue | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 continue | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 continue | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 continue | nsubj |
| 11 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 walk | mark |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continue | xcomp |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 arrive | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 18 arrive | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 arrive | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 arrive | aux |
| 18 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 walk | advcl |
| 19 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 arrive | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Becfola | yet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | continue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arrive in a quote | shall | we | somewhere, straight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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