Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21

“Boys are good enough with slings,” Confro continued, “but except for eating their fill and running away from a fight, you can’t count on boys.”

Who acts: Boys, Confro, you · What happens: be, continue, eat, run away, not count · To what, where: fill, fight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Boys, Confro, you), 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 good	punct
2	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 slings	case
7	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 good	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
10	Confro	Confro	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eating	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 eating	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eating	cc
15	except	except	ADP	_	17 eating	mark
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 eating	mark
17	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 continued	ccomp
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fill	nmod:poss
19	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eating	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 running	cc
21	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 eating	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 running	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 fight	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fight	det
25	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 running	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 count	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 count	nsubj
28	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 count	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 count	advmod
30	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 boys	case
32	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 count	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Boys			with slings; enough, good property	tree rules
2	continue	past	Confro				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	gerund	Confro not said here	Boys's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
4	run away in a quote	gerund	Confro not said here		a fight	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fight=Trajectory
5	not count in a quote	can	you			on boys	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on boy=Theme

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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