Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 16

“I marvel,” said the king in a discontented voice, “that, considering the numbers against them, the losses of clann-Morna should be so small.”

Who acts: king, that, losses · What happens: marvel, say, discontent, consider, be · To what, where: discontented voice, numbers · 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 (king, that, losses), 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 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 marvel	nsubj
3	marvel	marvel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 marvel	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 marvel	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 voice	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
11	discontented	discontent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 voice	amod
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 considering	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 considering	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 considering	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 considering	punct
17	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 numbers	det
19	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 considering	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 considering	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 losses	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 losses	det
24	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 small	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 clann	case
26	clann	clann	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 losses	nmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Morna	punct
28	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 losses	nmod
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 small	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 small	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 small	advmod
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 considering	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marvel in a quote	present	the king = king				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the king		a discontented voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	discontent	participle					tree rules
4	consider in a quote	gerund	that	the numbers		against numbers = number	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent number=Attribute
5	is in a quote	should	the losses of clann Morna			small property	tree rules

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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