Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 13
“Should you pass those hags,” she continued, “and no one has yet passed them, you must meet Ailill of the Black Teeth, the son of Mongan Tender Blossom, and who could pass that gigantic and terrible fighter?”
Who acts: you, journey · What happens: pass, continue, meet · To what, where: hags, one, Ailill, gigantic fighter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, journey), 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 pass | punct |
| 2 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pass | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | ccomp |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hags | det |
| 6 | hags | hag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pass | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pass | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 meet | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passed | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 continued | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 meet | aux |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Teeth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Teeth | det |
| 27 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Teeth | compound |
| 28 | Teeth | Teeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ailill | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 son | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 son | det |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Ailill | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Blossom | case |
| 33 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Blossom | compound |
| 34 | Tender | Tender | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Blossom | compound |
| 35 | Blossom | Blossom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 son | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pass | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pass | cc |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 pass | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 pass | aux |
| 40 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 meet | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 fighter | det |
| 42 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fighter | amod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 terrible | cc |
| 44 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gigantic | conj |
| 45 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pass | obj |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 40 pass | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | should | you | that hags | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hag=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | journey | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no one | yet | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | must | you | Ailill of the Black Teeth | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailill=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | could | that gigantic fighter | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fighter=Trajectory |
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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