Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

“If there was any way of warning the Fianna not to come here,” Fionn murmured.

Who acts: way, Fionn · What happens: be, warn, not come, murmur · To what, where: way, Fianna · 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 (way, Fionn), 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 way	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 murmured	obl
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 warning	mark
8	warning	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 way	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fianna	det
10	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 warning	obj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warning	xcomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
17	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 murmured	nsubj
18	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		any way			tree rules
2	warn speech: warn in a quote	gerund	any way not said here		the Fianna		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent fianna=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not come in a quote	to-infinitive	any way not said here			here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	murmur speech: other	past	Fionn				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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