Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 27

Talk on now,” said she, “and I’ll listen to you if I can remember how to do it.

Who acts: you, Hag, I · What happens: talk, say, listen, remember, do · To what, where: you, One · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hag, I), 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	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 now	case
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Talk	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	parataxis
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 listen	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 listen	nsubj
12	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 listen	aux
13	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 listen	obl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 remember	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 remember	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 remember	aux
19	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 listen	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 do	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remember	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Hag			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	listen	future	I		you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme
4	remember a condition, not said to happen	can	I			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive		One		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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