Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21
“You had better wait until he sends for you,” his companion advised, and they returned to their game.
Who acts: You, man, companion, matters · What happens: have, send, advise, return · To what, where: better wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man, companion, matters), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advised | advcl |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 wait | amod |
| 5 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 sends | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sends | nsubj |
| 8 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sends | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 companion | nmod:poss |
| 14 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advised | nsubj |
| 15 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advised | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 game | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 game | nmod:poss |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | better wait | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wait=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | man | for you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | man's companion | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return | past | matters = matter | to matters's game result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to game=Result |
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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