Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 10

“Ah me!” cried Fionn in anguish, “tell me your tale, my son.”

Who acts: me, your · What happens: cry, tell · To what, where: Fionn, anguish, tale, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 me	discourse
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 anguish	case
9	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tale	nmod:poss
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 son	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	me	Fionn		anguish		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		your tale	me		my son vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tale=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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