Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 30
“I should not like your son to be at Tara when I am there, or for a year afterwards, for I do not wish to meet him until I have forgotten him and have come to know you well.”
Who acts: king · What happens: not like, be, not wish, meet, forget, come · To what, where: son, Tara, you
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), 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 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 Tara | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Tara | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Tara | case |
| 11 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | appos |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 there | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 there | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 like | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 year | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 year | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 like | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wish | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 wish | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wish | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 wish | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wish | advmod |
| 27 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 meet | mark |
| 29 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wish | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 meet | obj |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 forgotten | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 forgotten | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 forgotten | aux |
| 34 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 wish | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 forgotten | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 come | cc |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 come | aux |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 forgotten | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 come | xcomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 know | obj |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 know | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | should | the king = king | your son | year | afterwards property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Tara | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the king = king | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | the king = king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | meet not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | Tara | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | Tara | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | you | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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