Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 39

“By my hand,” quoth he, “I will come.”

Who acts: maid · What happens: quoth, come · To what, where: question

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 (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	_	7 quoth	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quoth	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
7	quoth	quoth	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 quoth	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 quoth	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 quoth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quoth	present		question				by my hand	tree rules
2	come in a quote	future	maid						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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