Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12
“Yet tell it now,” the monstrous man insisted.
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, insist · To what, where: monstrous man, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 11 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the monstrous man | story | yet; now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient man=Topic | ||
| 2 | insist speech: other | participle | the monstrous man not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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