Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15
“Oscar,” he said, “will you kill me this great hag?”
Who acts: Oscar, you · What happens: say, kill · To what, where: Oscar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oscar, 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 Oscar | punct |
| 2 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oscar | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oscar | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 hag | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hag | amod |
| 15 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Oscar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | future | you | Oscar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer hag=Result |
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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