Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 48
“Go away,” said mac an Da’v, “go away, you flat-faced, nosey person.”
What happens: go away, say, mac · To what, where: Da’v · 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: 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 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 | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 mac | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 faced | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 faced | nsubj |
| 16 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faced | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 flat | punct |
| 18 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 20 | nosey | nosey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 person | amod |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faced | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 faced | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 faced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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