Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7

“Come down here, Cona’n, my darling.”

Who acts: you · What happens: come down · To what, where: Cona’n

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), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cona’n	punct
6	Cona’n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 darling	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 darling	nmod:poss
9	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Cona’n	appos
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Cona’n		here		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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