Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 41
“Won’t you let them drown, master?” asked mac an Da’v.
Who acts: you, gods, mac · What happens: not let, drown, ask · To what, where: gods, master · 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, gods, mac), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Wo | wo | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drown | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | conj |
| 13 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Da’v | det |
| 15 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mac | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | present | you | gods = god | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drown in a quote | infinitive | gods = god not said here | master | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | participle | mac | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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