Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28

“Won’t Fionn be glad when he sees us!” said the three sisters.

Who acts: Fionn, three sisters · What happens: not be, see, say · To what, where: us · 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, three sisters), 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	_	6 glad	punct
2	Wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 glad	advmod
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 glad	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	cop
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 sees	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	advcl
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sees	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sisters	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sisters	nummod
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	future	Fionn		glad property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	present	Fionn	us		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	past	the three sisters			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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