Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 8

“Friends and heroes,” said Conn, “Aillen, the son of Midna, will come to-night from Slieve Fuaid with occult, terrible fire against our city.

Who acts: Friends, Conn · What happens: say, come · To what, where: Slieve Fuaid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friends, Conn), 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 Friends	punct
2	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 heroes	cc
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Friends	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Friends	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Aillen	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Aillen	punct
11	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Conn	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 son	det
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Aillen	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Midna	case
16	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Conn	punct
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 Fuaid	case
24	Slieve	Slieve	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Fuaid	compound
25	Fuaid	Fuaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 occult	case
27	occult	occult	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fire	punct
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fire	amod
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 occult	appos
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 city	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 city	nmod:poss
33	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fire	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Friends and heroes						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	future	Conn and Aillen			Slieve Fuaid	night	with occult	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fuaid=Initial_Location

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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