Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 41

“I grant that,” said Fionn, “and now, tell me your plan?”

Who acts: Fionn, your · What happens: grant, say, tell, plan · To what, where: that, plan, 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, your), 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	_	3 grant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grant	nsubj
3	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 grant	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grant	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 grant	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 now	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 plan	nmod:poss
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	grant in a quote	present	Fionn	that			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Fionn				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your plan	Fionn	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plan=Topic
4	plan in a quote		your				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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