Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

“My soul to you, young master,” he said, and as he said it, Fionn knew that he could have the man’s soul, or his boots, or his feet, or anything that belonged to him.

Who acts: man, Fionn · What happens: say, know, have, belong · To what, where: master, boots, soul, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Fionn), 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	_	3 soul	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 soul	nmod:poss
3	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 soul	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 master	punct
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 master	amod
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soul	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 soul	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 soul	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
20	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 knew	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 soul	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 man	case
29	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 boots	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 boots	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 boots	nmod:poss
33	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 knew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 feet	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 feet	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 feet	nmod:poss
37	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 boots	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 anything	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 anything	cc
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 feet	appos
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 belonged	nsubj
42	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 anything	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 belonged	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	man	master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	know	past	Fionn	man's boots or man's feet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	could	man	the man's soul		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
5	belong	past			man	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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