Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21

Fionn demanded, “and from which of the four corners of the world do you come?”

Who acts: Fionn, four corners · What happens: demand, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, four corners), 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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 corners	cc
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 corners	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 corners	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corners	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 corners	nummod
11	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 come	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corners	nmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 demanded	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	Fionn						vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	come in a quote	present · do-support	the four corners of the world						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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