Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 30
“Why did you let him near you?” said the king to Duv Laca.
Who acts: Duv, king · What happens: let, say · To what, where: Tibraide, Duv · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duv, king), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 let | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Duv | case |
| 15 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Duv | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | past · do-support | Duv | Tibraide | near Duv | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the king | Duv | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to duv=Recipient 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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