Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 13

With what a dilation of spirit the ladies would have told tales of him, Fionn’s father.

Who acts: Baiscne · What happens: tell, dilate · To what, where: ladies, spirit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baiscne), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 dilation	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 dilation	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dilation	det
4	dilation	dilation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 spirit	case
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dilation	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ladies	det
8	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tales	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
16	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 father	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Fionn	case
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tales	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		the ladies	with what dilation of spirit	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tale=Topic
2	dilate			spirit		nom dilation «communication transitive»: of=patient
3	tell		Baiscne			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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