Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 22

“Amen,” said Fionn, “and now, tell me what you have come for?”

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: say, tell, come · To what, where: Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. 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	Amen	amen	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Amen	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Amen	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 now	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 come	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 tell	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 come	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Fionn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Fionn	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · perfect				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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