Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 56
“Go to your engagement,” he stammered.
Who acts: king, your · What happens: go, stammer, engage · To what, where: engagement · 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 (king, your), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 stammered | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 engagement | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 engagement | nmod:poss |
| 5 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stammered | nsubj |
| 9 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stammered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | your engagement | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to engagement=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | engage in a quote | your | nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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