Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 36

“Return to your home,” he counselled.

Who acts: man · What happens: return, counsell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 Return	punct
2	Return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 counselled	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 home	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 home	nmod:poss
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Return	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Return	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Return	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 counselled	nsubj
9	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 counselled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return in a quote	infinitive	man not said here					to your home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2	counsell	past	man						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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