Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21

“Tell on your tale,” said he.

Who acts: appearance, your · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, your), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 tale	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tale	nmod:poss
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your tale	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	appearance		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell in a quote		your		nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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