Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 37
“It is yet,” he continued thoughtfully, “a reasonable reason that you give and I will do what you ask, but by my hand and word I don’t like doing it.”
Who acts: presence, Conn, you, duty · What happens: be, continue, give, do, ask, not like · To what, where: reasonable reason, presence
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 (presence, Conn, you, duty), 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 | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 yet | cop |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 continued | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yet | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yet | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 8 continued | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reason | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reason | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 13 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reason | amod |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 give | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 do | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 ask | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 like | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 like | cc |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 like | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 word | cc |
| 31 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | conj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 like | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 like | aux |
| 34 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 like | advmod |
| 35 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | advcl |
| 36 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 like | xcomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 doing | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | presence | yet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Conn | a reasonable reason | thoughtfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | you | a reasonable reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | duty | by my hand and word | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | duty not said here | presence | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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