Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9

“That is your whistle, Fair Breast,” her sister of the Shi’ would say.

Who acts: That, whistle · What happens: be, say · To what, where: whistle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, whistle), 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	_	18 say	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 whistle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whistle	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 whistle	nmod:poss
5	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Breast	punct
7	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Breast	amod
8	Breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whistle	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sister	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 sister	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whistle	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ’	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ’	det
15	Shi	Shi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ’	compound
16	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sister	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	your whistle and Fair Breast and Breast's sister of the Shi ’					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	would	your whistle and Fair Breast and Breast's sister of the Shi ’						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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