Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 45

“He will not be asked to outrun the red deer or the wind,” the stranger sneered.

Who acts: Cona’n, stranger · What happens: not ask, outrun, sneer · To what, where: Cona’n, red deer

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 (Cona’n, stranger), 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	_	6 asked	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 asked	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	aux:pass
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sneered	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 outrun	mark
8	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deer	det
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deer	amod
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outrun	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 wind	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deer	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sneered	nsubj
19	sneered	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sneered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask in a quote	future · passive		Cona’n = cona'n	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	outrun not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Cona’n = cona'n not said here	the red deer or the wind	tree rules
3	sneer	past	the stranger		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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