Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 10

“I will magician him,” cried Finnian angrily.

Who acts: I · What happens: magician, cry · To what, where: person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 magician	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 magician	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 magician	aux
4	magician	magician	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	parataxis
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 magician	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 magician	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 magician	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Finnian	finnian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	xcomp
10	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	magician in a quote	future	I	person					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past						angrily, finnian property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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