Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 9

“If there is a way, tell it to me,” cried his master angrily.

Who acts: way, master · What happens: be, tell, cry · To what, where: way, master · 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 (way, master), 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	_	8 tell	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 is	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cried	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 master	nmod:poss
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obj
17	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	14 cried	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a way			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		way	servant's master = master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past	servant's master				angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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