Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 34
“Send for Tibraide’ till I apologise,” he cried.
Who acts: you, Tibraide · What happens: send, apologise, cry · 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 (you, Tibraide), 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 Send | punct |
| 2 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Tibraide | case |
| 4 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Send | obl |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 apologise | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 apologise | nsubj |
| 8 | apologise | apologise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 apologise | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 apologise | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Send | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | imperative | you not said here | for Tibraide | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | apologise speech: apologize in a quote | present | Tibraide | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Tibraide | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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