Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14
“Cona’n, my dear love, give the warning whistle so that the Fianna will keep out of this place.”
Who acts: Cona’n, Fianna, my · What happens: give, keep out, love · To what, where: warning whistle, place
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 (Cona’n, Fianna, 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 | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 2 | Cona’n | cona'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 love | amod |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cona’n | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cona’n | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whistle | det |
| 10 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whistle | compound |
| 11 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fianna | det |
| 15 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | Cona’n | the warning whistle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep out in a quote | future | the Fianna | this place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | 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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