Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 24
They will come to you with a cup in either hand; one cup will be filled with wine and one with poison.
Who acts: girls · What happens: come, fill · To what, where: you, hand, one cup
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 (girls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cup | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cup | det |
| 8 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cup | nummod |
| 14 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 filled | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 filled | aux:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wine | case |
| 19 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 filled | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 poison | case |
| 23 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | girls = girl | you | either hand | with a cup | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | fill | future · passive | one cup | with wine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wine=Instrument |
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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