Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 17
“Get up, beggarman, if you are going to run against me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: get up, go, run · To what, where: beggarman
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 (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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Get | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beggarman | punct |
| 5 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Get | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Get | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 run | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up in a quote | imperative | you not said here | beggarman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beggarman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | against Cael | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against i=Trajectory |
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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