Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 10
“Either of you will be welcome,” said the hag.
Who acts: Either, hag · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Either, 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 | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
| 2 | Either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Either | nmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 welcome | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 welcome | cop |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hag | det |
| 12 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | Either | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the 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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