Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 36

“It is due to you,” said Art, and they sat on the lawn before the palace and played.

Who acts: revenge, Art, sense · What happens: be, say, sit, play · To what, where: you, lawn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (revenge, Art, sense), 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	_	4 due	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 due	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 due	cop
4	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	9 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 due	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 due	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 due	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 lawn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lawn	det
17	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 palace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 played	cc
22	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	revenge	you			due property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Art					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	sense		the lawn	before the palace		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lawn=Location
4	play	past	sense not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «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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