Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 21
“It is not right,” they said, “that you should fight sheep.”
Who acts: vast, others, you · What happens: not be, say, fight · To what, where: sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast, others, you), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 fight | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fight | aux |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fight | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | vast | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | others = other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | should | you | sheep | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Co-Agent |
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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