Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 15

“But dear child and prince,” said another, kissing him likewise, “if any one of us could save Ireland by dying for her how cheerfully we would die.”

Who acts: dear child, one, we · What happens: say, kiss, save, die · To what, where: another, Segda, Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, one, we), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 child	cc
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 prince	cc
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kissing	punct
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kissing	obj
14	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	12 kissing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 save	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 save	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 save	mark
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 save	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 save	aux
23	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kissing	conj
24	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 save	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 dying	mark
26	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 save	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dying	obl
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 cheerfully	advmod
30	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	33 die	advmod
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 die	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 die	aux
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dying	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear child and prince	another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic
2	kiss	gerund	dear child and prince not said here	Segda	likewise property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	save a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	any one of us	Ireland		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ireland=Theme
4	die in a quote	gerund	any one of us not said here		for Tara	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for she=Theme
5	die in a quote	would	we		cheerfully property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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