Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 30

“If it has to be kissed,” said Fergus gloomily, “I’ll kiss it; I’d do more than that for Fionn,” he groaned.

Who acts: eye, Fergus · What happens: have, kiss, say, do, groan · To what, where: eye, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, Fergus), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 kissed	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 kissed	aux:pass
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 has	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	gloomily	gloomily	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kiss	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 kiss	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 kiss	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 kiss	aux
17	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kiss	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ’d	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ’d	nsubj
21	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ’d	xcomp
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 do	obj
24	than	than	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 more	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 Fionn	case
27	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 groaned	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 groaned	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 groaned	nsubj
31	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ’d	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	eye			tree rules
2	kiss in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	eye not said here			vn marry-36.2 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	past	Fergus		gloomily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kiss in a quote	future	Fergus	eye		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
5	have in a quote	past	Fergus			tree rules
6	do in a quote	infinitive	Fergus not said here	more	for Fionn	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
7	groan	past	Fergus			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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