Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 54

“I will be frightened of nothing,” said Fionn, “and the only person I will be sorry for is that Aillen mac Midna, who is going to get his own spear back.”

Who acts: Fionn, only person, Aillen mac · What happens: frighten, say, be, go, get · To what, where: Fionn, own 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, only person, Aillen mac), 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 frightened	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 frightened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sorry	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 sorry	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 person	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 person	det
16	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 person	amod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sorry	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sorry	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sorry	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sorry	cop
21	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 is	case
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sorry	cop
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 going	mark
25	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 mac	compound
26	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 going	nsubj
27	Midna	Midna	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 mac	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 going	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sorry	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 going	xcomp
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 spear	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spear	amod
36	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sorry	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten in a quote	future · passive		Fionn	of nothing	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Fionn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	the only person		sorry property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	Aillen mac			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get in a quote	to-infinitive	Aillen mac not said here	Fionn's own spear		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spear=Stimulus

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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