Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4

Ah, taker of another girl’s sweetheart!” said Uct Dealv fiercely.

Who acts: taker · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taker), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 taker	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	taker	taker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 sweetheart	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sweetheart	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taker	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 taker	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 taker	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Uct	flat
14	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	taker of another girl's sweetheart					fiercely property	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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