Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 4
“If we cannot get in by hook, we will get in by crook,” said Mongan.
Who acts: we, Mongan · What happens: not get in, get in, say · 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 (we, Mongan), 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 | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hook | case |
| 9 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 get | aux |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 crook | case |
| 16 | crook | crook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | by hook | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get in in a quote | future | we | by crook | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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