Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 50
“Run to the trees yonder,” her mistress ordered.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: run, order · 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 (mistress), 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 Run | punct |
| 2 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 trees | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trees | det |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Run | obl |
| 6 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 2 Run | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Run | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | infinitive | mass's mistress not said here | to the trees result; yonder property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | order | past | mass's mistress | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V 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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