Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10
“Help yourself,” roared Cael, “for all that I want is not to be near you.”
Who acts: Cael · What happens: help, roar, want, not be · To what, where: yourself, Cael · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cael), 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 Help | punct |
| 2 | Help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 roared | ccomp |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Help | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Help | punct |
| 6 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 roared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 you | det:predet |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 want | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 you | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 you | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 you | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 you | cop |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 roared | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 roared | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | infinitive | yourself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | roar | past | Cael | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Cael | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | near you | 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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