Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 5
“I’Il build a house myself,” said the Carl, “and the man who does not help in the building can stay outside of the house.”
Who acts: I’Il, Carl, man · What happens: build, say, not help, stay · To what, where: house, building · 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 (I’Il, Carl, man), 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 | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 2 | I’Il | I'Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 build | nsubj |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obj |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 build | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Carl | det |
| 11 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stay | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 help | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 building | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 building | det |
| 23 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 help | obl |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stay | aux |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 26 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | infinitive | I’Il | a house | myself obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Carl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not help in a quote | present · do-support | the man | the building | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | can | the man | the house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside house=Location |
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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