Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11
“Continue, my love,” said Finnian.
Who acts: Finnian, my · What happens: continue, say, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, my), 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 | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 2 | Continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Continue | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | infinitive | my love vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Finnian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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