Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 30
“I am going to send you to Duv Laca.”
Who acts: king · What happens: go, send · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 send | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Duv | case |
| 9 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 send | obl |
| 10 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Duv | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the king = king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | you | to Duv | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to duv=Destination |
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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