Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 33
“Give me my horn,” said the gracious monarch.
Who acts: gracious monarch · What happens: give, say · To what, where: horn, gracious monarch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gracious monarch), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monarch | det |
| 10 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 monarch | amod |
| 11 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | my horn | the gracious monarch = monarch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the gracious monarch | 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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