Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 43

“I think that your friends in Faery have cheated,” he replied, “but the game is yours if you are content to win it that way.”

Who acts: Faery, game, yours · What happens: think, cheat, reply, be, win · To what, where: friends, yours, statement · 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 (Faery, game, yours), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cheated	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cheated	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Faery	case
8	Faery	Faery	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 friends	nmod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cheated	aux
10	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 replied	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cheated	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 cheated	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 yours	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 yours	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 yours	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 game	det
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 yours	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yours	cop
21	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 content	nsubj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 content	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 content	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 content	cop
25	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 think	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 win	mark
27	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 content	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 win	obj
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 win	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	Faery			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cheat in a quote	present · perfect · passive		your friends in Faery		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	reply speech: assert	past	Faery			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the game	yours		tree rules
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	yours		content property	tree rules
6	win in a quote	to-infinitive	yours not said here	statement	that way obl:unmarked	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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