Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 9

“Now Cael, my darling,” said the Carl, “if you are a man help me to look for something to eat, for there is game here.”

Who acts: Cael, you, man, game · What happens: say, be, help, look, eat · To what, where: man, 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, you, man, game), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Cael	advmod
3	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 darling	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 darling	nmod:poss
6	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Cael	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Cael	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Cael	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	_	19 help	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 man	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 man	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 help	nsubj
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 something	case
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 look	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 something	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 is	case
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
31	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 is	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cael				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a man			tree rules
3	help in a quote	infinitive	a man	Cael			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	look in a quote	to-infinitive	Cael not said here			for something	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Cael not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be in a quote	present	game		here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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