Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 14

“It is the Dark Magician of the Men of God,” cried Fionn despairingly.

Who acts: last, Dark Magician · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: Dark Magician, Fionn · 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 (last, Dark Magician), 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	_	6 Magician	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Magician	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Magician	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Magician	det
5	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Magician	amod
6	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Men	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Men	det
9	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Magician	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 God	case
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Men	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Magician	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Magician	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cried	obj
16	despairingly	despairingly	ADV	_	14 cried	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	last	the Dark Magician				of the Men of God	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the Dark Magician	Fionn				despairingly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionn=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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