Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23

“Yet,” said Cael to himself, “with an hour’s start the beggarman will have to move his bones if he wants to catch on me,” and he settled down to a good, pelting race.

Who acts: Cael, hour, beggarman · What happens: say, start, have, move, want, catch · To what, where: Cael, bones · 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, hour, beggarman), 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	Yet	yet	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yet	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yet	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hour	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 hour	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 hour	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hour	det
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
14	’s	's	PART	_	15 start	mark
15	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hour	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beggarman	det
17	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 start	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 move	mark
21	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bones	nmod:poss
23	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 move	obj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 wants	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wants	nsubj
26	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 move	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 catch	mark
28	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wants	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 catch	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 settled	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 settled	nsubj
35	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 settled	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	42 race	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 race	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 race	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pelting	punct
41	pelting	pelt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 race	amod
42	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 settled	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cael		Cael	yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	start in a quote	infinitive	a hour not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	have in a quote	future	the beggarman					tree rules
4	move in a quote	to-infinitive	the beggarman not said here	Cael's bones				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
5	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Cael					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	catch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Cael not said here				on Cael	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	settle down	past	Cael				to a good pelting race result; down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to race=Result
8	pelt	gerund						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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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