Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 39
“If you continue it,” he said, “it will surely come to an end some time.
Who acts: you, king, impatience · What happens: continue, say, come · To what, where: impatience, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, king, impatience), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 continue | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 continue | nsubj |
| 4 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 continue | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 continue | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 continue | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | impatience | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | impatience | to a end; time | surely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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