Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 23

“And if you come into a house where I am during the time and term of that year, you are not to sit down in the chair that I am sitting in.”

Who acts: you, Branduv · What happens: come, be, not be, sit in, term · To what, where: house, chair, year

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Branduv), 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	_	25 sit	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 sit	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 time	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 term	cc
16	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 term	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 sit	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sit	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sit	mark
25	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sit	compound:prt
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 chair	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chair	det
29	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 sitting	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 sitting	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sitting	aux
33	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sit	advcl
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 sitting	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		a house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	is in a quote	present	Branduv			during the time and term of that year		tree rules
3	not is in a quote	present	you		the chair		sit property	tree rules
4	sit in in a quote	present · progressive	Branduv					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	term in a quote			that year				nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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