Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 12

“There is no way, my darling,” said Caevo’g, and she smiled a smile that would have killed Fionn, only that he shut his eyes in time.

Who acts: way, Caevo’g, Fionn · What happens: be, say, smile, kill, shut · To what, where: smile, eyes · 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, Caevo’g, 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 darling	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 darling	nmod:poss
8	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Caevo’g	Caevo'g	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smiled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smiled	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smiled	nsubj
16	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 smile	det
18	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smiled	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 killed	nsubj:pass
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 killed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 killed	aux
22	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 smile	acl:relcl
23	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 killed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shut	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 shut	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 shut	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shut	nsubj
28	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 smiled	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shut	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 time	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shut	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	no way my darling		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Caevo’g				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	smile	past	way	a smile			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic
4	kill	would · perfect · passive		a smile			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer fionn=Result
5	shut	past	Fionn	Fionn's eyes		time	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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