Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 36
“The thing that it is right I should ask,” said Fionn: “the command of the Fianna of Ireland.”
Who acts: thing, Fionn · What happens: be, ask, say, command · To what, where: Fianna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, 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 | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 right | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thing | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 right | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 command | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 command | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 command | det |
| 18 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Fianna | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Fianna | det |
| 21 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 command | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ireland | case |
| 23 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Fianna | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 command | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 command | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the thing that Ri | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | should | Fionn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Fionn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | command in a quote | the Fianna of Ireland | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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