Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23

“No, no,” he cried; “no, my soul, Fionn, this would not be a proper combat for you.

Who acts: Fionn, this · What happens: cry, not be · To what, where: soul, proper combat · 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 (Fionn, this), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 No	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 soul	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 soul	punct
11	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	14 soul	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 soul	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 soul	nmod:poss
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Fionn	punct
16	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 soul	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 combat	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 combat	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 combat	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 combat	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 combat	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 combat	det
23	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 combat	amod
24	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soul	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 combat	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fionn	my soul and a proper combat					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	would	this	a proper combat				for you	tree rules

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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