Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 42

“If I could refuse anything to Fionn it would be a dog,” said Fergus, “but I could not refuse anything to Fionn, so give me the hound.”

Who acts: Fergus, message · What happens: refuse, be, say, not refuse, give · To what, where: anything, Fionn, dog, hound, Fergus · 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 (Fergus, message), 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 refuse	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 refuse	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 refuse	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 refuse	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Fionn	case
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dog	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 dog	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dog	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 refuse	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 refuse	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 refuse	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 refuse	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 refuse	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 refuse	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 refuse	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 refuse	advmod
24	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	parataxis
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 refuse	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Fionn	case
27	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 refuse	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 give	advmod
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 refuse	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hound	det
33	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	Fergus	anything	Fionn	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	is a in a quote	would	message	a dog		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Fergus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not refuse in a quote	could	Fergus	anything	Fionn	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
5	give in a quote	infinitive	Fergus not said here	the hound	Fergus	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hound=Theme

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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