Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 10
You can play chess with your wife when you have won the right to leisure.”
Who acts: You · What happens: play, win · To what, where: chess, right
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 won | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 play | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 13 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 leisure | case |
| 15 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 right | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | can | You | chess | with your wife | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chess=Theme with wife=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | win | present · perfect | you | the right | to leisure | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality |
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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