Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20
“Say that he won’t outrun a hedgehog, dear heart.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: say, not outrun · To what, where: hedgehog · 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, man), 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 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 outrun | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 outrun | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 outrun | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 outrun | advmod |
| 7 | outrun | outrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Say | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hedgehog | det |
| 9 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 outrun | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heart | punct |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heart | amod |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hedgehog | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not outrun in a quote | future | man | a hedgehog and dear heart | tree rules |
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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