Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 29
Go,” he said to mac an Da’v, “to that fairy place we both know of.
Who acts: you, sorrier, we · What happens: go, say, mac, know · To what, where: Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sorrier, we), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 mac | mark |
| 7 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | xcomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Da’v | det |
| 9 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mac | obl |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 know | nsubj |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 place | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 know | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | sorrier = sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mac in a quote | to-infinitive | sorrier = sorry not said here | a Da’v | to that fairy place | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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