Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 70
“You shall have a half of the fish,” cried Fionn.
Who acts: You, Fionn · What happens: have, cry · To what, where: half · 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 (You, 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 half | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 half | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | You | a half of the fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Fionn | 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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