Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
“It is not kind to refuse a thing that the Ard-Ri’ of Ireland asks for, and I will go with him.”
Who acts: It, Ard Ri, son · What happens: not be, refuse, ask, go · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Ard Ri, son), 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 kind | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 refuse | mark |
| 7 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuse | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 asks | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ri | det |
| 12 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ri | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ard | punct |
| 14 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asks | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ri | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ireland | case |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ri | nmod |
| 18 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 asks | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | It | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse in a quote | to-infinitive | a thing | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the Ard Ri of Ireland | a thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | son | with Ri | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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