Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 57
She did not say good-bye to the king as she set out for Ben Edair.
Who acts: Tara · What happens: not say, set out · To what, where: good bye, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tara), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bye | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 set | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Ben | case |
| 16 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ben | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | Tara | good bye | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | set out | past | Tara | for Ben | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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