Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37

“I will escort you there with your maid, for she is not really dead, and when I have won my lordship I will go seek you in Tara.”

Who acts: Becfola, maid · What happens: escort, not be, win, go, seek · To what, where: you, lordship, Tara

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 (Becfola, maid), 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	_	4 escort	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 escort	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 escort	aux
4	escort	escort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 escort	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 escort	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 maid	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 maid	nmod:poss
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escort	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dead	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 dead	case
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dead	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 dead	advmod
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 dead	advmod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 escort	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 won	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 won	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 won	aux
22	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 go	advcl
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lordship	nmod:poss
24	lordship	lordship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 won	obj
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dead	parataxis
28	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	xcomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 seek	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Tara	case
31	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 seek	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 escort	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 escort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	escort in a quote	future	Becfola	you	there	with your maid	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	maid			dead property	tree rules
3	win in a quote	present · perfect	Becfola	my lordship			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lordship=Eventuality
4	go in a quote	future	Becfola				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	seek in a quote	infinitive	Becfola not said here	you	Tara		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in tara=Location

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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