Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 9

She said it was unjust and presumptuous that the servant should get a child at the same time that she got one herself, but there was no help for it, because the child was there and could not be obliterated.

Who acts: child, attendant, servant · What happens: say, be, get, not obliterate · To what, where: child, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, attendant, servant), 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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unjust	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unjust	cop
5	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 presumptuous	cc
7	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unjust	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servant	det
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unjust	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 got	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 get	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 got	obj
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 one	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 there	cop
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 help	det
29	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 help	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 there	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 there	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 there	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 there	cop
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 obliterated	cc
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 obliterated	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 obliterated	advmod
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 obliterated	aux:pass
42	obliterated	obliterate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 there	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	attendant			unjust property	tree rules
3	be		attendant not said here				tree rules
4	get	should	the servant	a child	time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	get	past	servant	one child			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
6	is	past	the child			there property	tree rules
7	not obliterate	could · passive	the child not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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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