Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 14
“I die, I die for meal and blackberries.”
Who acts: Carl · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl), 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 die | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 die | nsubj |
| 3 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 die | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 meal | case |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blackberries | cc |
| 10 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 meal | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | present | the Carl = carl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | present | the Carl = carl | for meal and blackberries | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for meal=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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