Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 29

“Let one magician of the magicians tell me what is hidden in the bags that are lying across the back of my cow.”

Who acts: you, one magician, bags · What happens: let, tell, hide, lie · To what, where: one magician, bags, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one magician, bags), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 magician	nummod
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 magicians	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magicians	det
7	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 magician	nmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 hidden	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hidden	aux:pass
12	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tell	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 bags	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bags	det
15	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hidden	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lying	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lying	aux
18	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bags	acl:relcl
19	across	across	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 back	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lying	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cow	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cow	nmod:poss
24	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 back	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	one magician of the magicians	one magician of the magicians = magician		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hide in a quote	present · passive			the bags	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in bag=Location
4	lie in a quote	present · progressive	the bags		the back of my cow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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