Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 33

“I am not badly learned in these arts,” said the woman, “and I say that if you slay this cow the effect will be the same as if you had killed the boy.”

Who acts: woman, you, effect · What happens: not learn, say, slay, be, kill · To what, where: arts, cow, you · 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 (woman, you, effect), 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	_	6 learned	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learned	advmod
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 learned	advmod
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 arts	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 arts	det
9	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 learned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 “	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 “	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 same	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 slay	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 slay	nsubj
23	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 same	advcl
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slay	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 effect	det
27	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 same	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 same	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 same	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 same	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 say	ccomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 killed	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 killed	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 killed	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 killed	aux
36	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 same	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 boy	det
38	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killed	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not learn in a quote	present · passive	the woman = woman		this arts	badly property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the woman = woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	slay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	this cow			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
5	is in a quote	future	the effect			same property	tree rules
6	kill in a quote	past · perfect · passive		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=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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