Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14
“Don’t think out loud, dear heart, for you and I are at peace by law.”
Who acts: you, Cona’n · What happens: not think out, be · To what, where: dear heart, peace
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cona’n), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heart | punct |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peace | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 peace | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 peace | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 you | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think out speech: other in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | dear heart | loud, out property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Cona’n = cona'n | peace | by law | tree rules |
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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