Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 34

“Where to, O Fionn?” said a champion humbly.

Who acts: champion · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (champion), 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 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 said	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	2 Where	case
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
5	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fionn	compound
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 champion	det
11	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a champion					humbly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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