Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14
“You had better come with me,” he said.
Who acts: You, grass · What happens: have, come, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, grass), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | with grass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | grass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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