Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 38
“So,” said Finegas, “you did not eat it on me after all?”
Who acts: Finegas, you · What happens: say, not eat · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finegas, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 So | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Finegas | Finegas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 eat | advmod |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 eat | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Finegas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not eat in a quote | past · do-support | you | love | after all | on Finegas | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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