Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 37
“Would you put a toe on that bridge?” said the clerk.
Who acts: you, clerk · What happens: put, say · To what, where: toe, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, clerk), 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 | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 toe | det |
| 6 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clerk | det |
| 14 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | would | you | a toe | that bridge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme on bridge=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the clerk | 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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