Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 3
She replied to his questions, but she did not tell him all the truth; for, indeed, she could not afford to.
Who acts: lady, Conn · What happens: reply, not tell, not afford, question · To what, where: truth, Conn · 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 (lady, Conn), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 questions | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 questions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 truth | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 afford | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 indeed | case |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 for | punct |
| 19 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 afford | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 indeed | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 afford | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 afford | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 afford | advmod |
| 24 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 afford | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | lady | to Conn's questions | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | lady | all truth | Conn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 3 | not afford | could | lady | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | question | Conn | nom question «communication 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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