Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 38

“You will surely come,” she insisted.

Who acts: You, maid · What happens: come, insist · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, maid), 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	_	5 come	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 insisted	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 insisted	nsubj
9	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 insisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	You					surely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	insist speech: other	past	maid						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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