Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21
“And if you let me go free I will lift the enchantment from the Fianna-Finn and will give them all back to you again.”
Who acts: you, stroke · What happens: let, go, lift, give · To what, where: stroke, enchantment, Fianna Finn, hands
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 (you, stroke), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | xcomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 lift | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lift | aux |
| 11 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 enchantment | det |
| 13 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lift | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Finn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Finn | det |
| 16 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Finn | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fianna | punct |
| 18 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lift | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 give | cc |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lift | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 give | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 back | obl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 give | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | present | you | stroke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | stroke not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift in a quote | future | stroke | the enchantment | the Fianna Finn | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme from finn=Destination | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | stroke not said here | hands = hand | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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