Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 33
“Let them wear whiskers or not wear them,” Cona’n counselled.
Who acts: you, whiskers · What happens: let, wear, not wear, counsell · To what, where: whiskers
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whiskers), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 wear | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wear | advmod |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wear | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 counselled | compound |
| 13 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | whiskers = whisker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | infinitive | whiskers = whisker not said here | whiskers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent whisker=Source | ||||
| 3 | not wear in a quote | infinitive | whiskers = whisker not said here | whiskers = whisker | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | ||||
| 4 | counsell | participle | whiskers = whisker not said here | tree rules |
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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