Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 50

“By my hand,” cried Fionn, “he shall be here in no great time, for I will fetch him myself.”

Who acts: Fionn, stranger · What happens: cry, be, fetch · To what, where: stranger · 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, stranger), 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 cried	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 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hand	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 here	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 here	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cried	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 time	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 here	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fetch	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 fetch	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fetch	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fetch	aux
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fetch	obj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 fetch	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fionn			by my hand	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	shall	stranger		time	here property	tree rules
3	fetch in a quote	future	Fionn	stranger		myself obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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