Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 47

“He asked me in marriage,” she continued, “but my mind was full of my own dear hero, and I refused the Dark Man.”

Who acts: God, Fionn, mind, my · What happens: ask, continue, be, refuse, mind · To what, where: Fionn, marriage, Dark Man

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 (God, Fionn, mind, my), 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	_	3 asked	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 continued	advcl
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 marriage	case
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 continued	nsubj
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 full	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 full	cc
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mind	nmod:poss
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 full	cop
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 continued	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 hero	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hero	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hero	amod
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hero	amod
22	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 refused	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 refused	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 refused	nsubj
26	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 continued	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Man	det
28	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Man	amod
29	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refused	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	God		Fionn	marriage		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	continue	past	Fionn					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	my mind				of my own dear hero; full property	tree rules
4	refuse in a quote	past	Fionn	the Dark Man				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	mind in a quote		my					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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