Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 36

“If rivers fall out of the sky what has that to do with you, and if there is a river here, which there is, why, thank God, there is a bridge over it too.”

Who acts: rivers, that, bridge · What happens: fall, have, do, be, thank · To what, where: sky, that, God

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rivers, that, bridge), 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	_	10 has	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 fall	mark
3	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 sky	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 has	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 has	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 do	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 here	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 has	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 is	nsubj
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 why	punct
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 here	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thank	punct
31	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 has	parataxis
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 thank	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 is	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 is	expl
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 thank	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bridge	det
37	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 is	nsubj
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bridge	nmod
40	too	too	ADV	_	35 is	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	rivers			the sky		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out sky=Location
2	have in a quote	present		that				tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	that not said here				with you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present					here property	tree rules
5	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			God			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
6	be in a quote	present	a bridge over sky			there		vn exist-47.1 «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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