Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 47
“Produce this runner, and we shall discover if he keeps as great heart in his feet as he has made you think.”
Who acts: you, we, stranger · What happens: produce, discover, keep, make, think · To what, where: runner, feet, you
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, we, 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 | _ | 2 Produce | punct |
| 2 | Produce | produce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 runner | det |
| 4 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Produce | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 discover | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 discover | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 discover | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 discover | aux |
| 9 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Produce | conj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeps | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 discover | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keeps | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 discover | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Produce | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Produce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this runner | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Result | ||||
| 2 | discover in a quote | shall | we | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | stranger | stranger's feet | as great heart | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in foot=Location | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · perfect | stranger | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/48/47/