Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 38

“If you must tell me what to do,” said Conn, “tell me at least to do something that I can do.”

Who acts: you, Conn · What happens: tell, do, say · To what, where: me, Conn, least, something · 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, Conn), 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 tell	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 least	case
19	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 tell	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	ccomp
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 do	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 do	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 something	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	must	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Conn				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Conn	least	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		something			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
6	do in a quote	can	Conn				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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