Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16

“Then,” said the Carl, “we may go off to Slieve Luachra now, and in the morning we can start our race there to here.”

Who acts: Carl, we, our · What happens: say, go off, start, race · To what, where: Slieve, race · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, we, our), 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 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Carl	det
7	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 go	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Slieve	case
15	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	Luachra	Luachra	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Slieve	flat
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 start	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 start	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 morning	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 start	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 start	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 start	aux
25	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 race	nmod:poss
27	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 start	obj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 start	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 here	case
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 there	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Carl				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go off in a quote	may	we		Slieve		now	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	start in a quote	can	we	our race		there	morning	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
4	race in a quote		our					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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