Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6
“We have been sent to you hurriedly by our master, Molasius of Devenish.”
Who acts: master · What happens: send · To what, where: We, you
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 (master), 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 sent | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Molasius | punct |
| 13 | Molasius | Molasius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 master | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Devenish | case |
| 15 | Devenish | Devenish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Molasius | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | our master | We | you | hurriedly property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to you=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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