Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20

“I had better go to greet my father,” said the young man.

Who acts: young man · What happens: have, go, greet, say · To what, where: father · 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 (young man), 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 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 greet	mark
7	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 greet	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	the young man = man		good property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	the young man = man not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	greet speech: greet in a quote	to-infinitive	the young man = man not said here	my father		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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