Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17

“He can do twice as much as he said he would do,” the monster replied.

Who acts: Fionn, monster · What happens: do, say, reply · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, monster), 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	_	4 do	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 replied	ccomp
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 much	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 much	advcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monster	det
17	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 replied	nsubj
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do in a quote	can	Fionn	much	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Fionn		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	would	Fionn		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reply speech: assert	past	the monster		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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