Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 20
“I put my life under your protection,” said she.
Who acts: stroke, your · What happens: put, say, protect · To what, where: life, protection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stroke, your), 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 put | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 protection | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 protection | nmod:poss |
| 8 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | past | stroke | my life | your protection | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme under protection=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stroke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | protect in a quote | your | nom protection «act 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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