Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 14
“Let everybody leave this room, while I am talking to the queen,” said he; and all the attendants left the room, except one, and she wouldn’t go, for she wouldn’t leave her mistress.
Who acts: everybody, Mongan, attendants, Kevin · What happens: let, leave, talk, say, not go, not leave · To what, where: everybody, room, mistress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Mongan, attendants, Kevin), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talking | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 talking | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | aux |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 leave | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 queen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 attendants | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attendants | det |
| 23 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 left | nsubj |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 one | punct |
| 28 | except | except | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 left | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 go | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 go | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 go | aux |
| 34 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 go | advmod |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 leave | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 leave | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 leave | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 leave | aux |
| 40 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 leave | advmod |
| 41 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | parataxis |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 leave | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | everybody | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | everybody not said here | this room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | Mongan | to the queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | all attendants | the room | except one | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 6 | not go | would | Kevin | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not leave | would | Kevin | Kevin's mistress | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=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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