Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 29
“The king would suspect something if I did not kiss you,” said he, and then he gave the hag over to the king.
Who acts: king · What happens: suspect, not kiss, say, give over · To what, where: something, you, hag, king · 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 (king), 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 | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suspect | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 suspect | aux |
| 5 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 suspect | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 kiss | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kiss | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kiss | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 kiss | advmod |
| 11 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 suspect | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kiss | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suspect | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 gave | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hag | det |
| 23 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 gave | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect in a quote | would | the king | something | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent something=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not kiss a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · do-support | King | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give over | past | King | the hag | the king | then | over property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hag=Theme to king=Recipient |
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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