Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21
“And you shall tell it to me,” cried the abbot triumphantly.
Who acts: you, abbot · What happens: tell, cry · To what, where: Faery, abbot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, abbot), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 abbot | det |
| 13 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | shall | you | Faery | the abbot = abbot | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the abbot | triumphantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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