Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 26
“I do ask for it,” said Branduv menacingly, “and you must not refuse a lord.”
Who acts: Branduv, you · What happens: ask, say, not refuse · To what, where: lord · 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 (Branduv, you), 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Branduv | Branduv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | menacingly | menacingly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refuse | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 refuse | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 refuse | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 refuse | advmod |
| 18 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lord | det |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refuse | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | Branduv | for right | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Branduv | menacingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not refuse in a quote | must | you | a lord | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme |
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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