Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20
But if you are in a hurry, my delight, you can start running now with a blessing.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: be, start, run, delight · To what, where: hurry
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, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 start | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 hurry | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hurry | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurry | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hurry | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hurry | det |
| 7 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 start | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delight | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 delight | nmod:poss |
| 10 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurry | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurry | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 start | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 start | aux |
| 14 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 start | xcomp |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 running | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 blessing | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blessing | det |
| 19 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 running | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a hurry and my delight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | can | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | you not said here | now | with a blessing | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with blessing=Material | |||
| 4 | delight | my | nom delight «feeling 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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