Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 38
“Let me throw a little small piece of a rock at the King of Leinster.”
Who acts: you, Master · What happens: let, throw · To what, where: Master, little small piece
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 (you, 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Leinster | case |
| 16 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw in a quote | infinitive | Master not said here | a little small piece of a rock | at the King of Leinster | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent piece=Theme at king=Destination |
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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