Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 19

“Nevertheless,” said he regally, “I will not come between a woman and her choice.”

Who acts: I · What happens: say, not come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nevertheless	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 regally	nsubj
7	regally	regally	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	between	between	ADP	_	16 woman	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 choice	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 choice	nmod:poss
19	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past						nevertheless, regally property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not come in a quote	future	I					between a woman and woman's choice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between woman=Location

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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