Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 30
“Look down the road on this side and tell me who is coming,” said his master.
Who acts: master · What happens: look down, tell, come, say · To what, where: road, side, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Look | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down in a quote | infinitive | the road | this side | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | gathering's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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