Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 25
“Then I will not allow you to choose,” cried the king, “and it is with myself you shall marry.”
Who acts: king, much · What happens: not allow, choose, cry, be, marry · To what, where: you, king · 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 (king, much), 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 | _ | 6 allow | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 allow | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 allow | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allow | advmod |
| 6 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 allow | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 choose | mark |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allow | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 allow | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 marry | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 marry | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 myself | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 myself | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 myself | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 myself | case |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 marry | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 marry | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 marry | aux |
| 24 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 king | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow in a quote | future | the king = king | you | then | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | choose not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | much | with the king = king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | shall | the king = king | the king not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
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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