Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 28

Talk gently,” said she, “the way you won’t disturb the animals, for they are all sick.”

Who acts: you, animals · What happens: talk, say, not disturb, be · To what, where: animals · 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, animals), 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	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Talk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Talk	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	acl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 she	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 she	appos
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 disturb	nsubj
12	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 disturb	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 disturb	advmod
14	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 way	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 animals	det
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 disturb	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sick	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 sick	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sick	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sick	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 sick	advmod
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 disturb	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		gently property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not disturb	future	you	the animals		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer
4	is	present	animals = animal		all, sick property	tree rules

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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