Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 74
“Ah,” said he, “I had a great combat with that fish.”
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say, have · To what, where: great combat · 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 (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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 combat | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 combat | amod |
| 13 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Fionn | a great combat | with that fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=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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