Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 24
“If you allow me to choose it means that you do not want me very badly,” said she with a smile.
Who acts: you · What happens: allow, choose, mean, not want, say · To what, where: me, much · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 9 means | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 allow | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | nsubj |
| 4 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 choose | mark |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allow | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 choose | obj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 want | advmod |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | advcl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 badly | advmod |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 want | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 smile | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 smile | det |
| 24 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 she | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | choose not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | much | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | you | me | badly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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