Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 42
“Why should I want another man’s fish?” said proud Fionn.
Who acts: proud Fionn · What happens: want, say · To what, where: fish · 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 (proud 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 want | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fish | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Fionn | amod |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | should | proud Fionn = fionn | another man's fish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | proud Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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