Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 16

“No good can come to any one from such a tale.”

Who acts: good · What happens: come · To what, where: one, tale

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good), 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 come	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 good	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 one	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 tale	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 tale	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tale	det
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	can	no good		any one	such tale			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location from tale=Destination

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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