Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 16
“Go away,” said the girl, “unhand me, villain,” said she.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go away, say, unhand · To what, where: girl · 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 (girl), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhand | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhand | punct |
| 11 | unhand | unhand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 unhand | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 villain | punct |
| 14 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unhand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhand | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhand | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | 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 | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | unhand in a quote | infinitive | the girl = girl | villain obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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