Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 46
“Well?” said Fionn, wondering nevertheless where Fiacuil got the spear, but too generous to ask.
Who acts: Fionn, Fiacuil · What happens: say, wonder, get, ask · To what, where: spear · 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, Fiacuil), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | 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 | _ | 8 wondering | punct |
| 8 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 10 where | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 got | advmod |
| 11 | Fiacuil | Fiacuil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wondering | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spear | det |
| 14 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 generous | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 generous | cc |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 generous | advmod |
| 18 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 generous | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Fionn not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Fiacuil | the spear | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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