Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 38
“Come on, my love,” said Fionn, “for I must find out if these whiskers are true.”
Who acts: Fionn, whiskers, my · What happens: come on, say, find out, be, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fionn, whiskers, my), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 find | compound:prt |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 true | mark |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 whiskers | det |
| 20 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 true | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 true | cop |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on in a quote | infinitive | my love vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | must | Fionn | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this whiskers | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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