Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 34

Further,” she continued with downcast eyes, “when you remember the reason that brought me here you will see that his presence would be an embarrassment to us both, and my presence would be unpleasant to him if he remembers his mother.”

Who acts: duty, you, reason, presence, king · What happens: continue, remember, bring, see, be · To what, where: reason, me, embarrassment, us, king, mother · 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 (duty, you, reason, presence), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	5 continued	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 continued	nsubj
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 continued	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 remember	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 remember	nsubj
13	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remember	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 brought	nsubj
17	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reason	acl:relcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 brought	obj
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 brought	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 embarrassment	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 presence	nmod:poss
25	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 embarrassment	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 embarrassment	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 embarrassment	cop
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 embarrassment	det
29	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 us	case
31	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 embarrassment	nmod
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 us	nmod:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 unpleasant	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 unpleasant	cc
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 presence	nmod:poss
36	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 unpleasant	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 unpleasant	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 unpleasant	cop
39	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 continued	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 unpleasant	obl
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 remembers	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 remembers	nsubj
44	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 unpleasant	advcl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mother	nmod:poss
46	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 remembers	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past	duty				with downcast eyes; further property	vn continue-55.3 «NP.eventuality V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with eye=Subeventuality
2	remember	present	you	the reason				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
3	bring	past	the reason		me	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
4	see	future	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	would	king's presence	a embarrassment	us			tree rules
6	is	would	my presence		king		unpleasant property	tree rules
7	remember a condition, not said to happen	present	king	king's mother				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme

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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