Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24
“I do not go on errands,” the man replied sternly, “but on the affairs that please me.”
Who acts: man, affairs · What happens: not go, reply, please · To what, where: errands, man · 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 (man, affairs), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 errands | case |
| 7 | errands | errand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 affairs | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 affairs | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 affairs | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 affairs | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 affairs | det |
| 19 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 please | nsubj |
| 21 | please | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 affairs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 please | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 affairs | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | present · do-support | the man = man | errands | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | sternly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | please in a quote | present | the affairs | the man = man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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