Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 36
“Hold that for me while I think,” said she.
Who acts: Hag · What happens: think, say · To what, where: Hold · 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 (Hag), 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 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 think | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 that | obl |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hold | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Hag | Hold | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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