Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 16

“Why, we are here,” cried Mongan; “where else should we be?”

Who acts: we, Mongan · What happens: be, cry · 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 (we, Mongan), 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 cried	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 here	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 here	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 here	cop
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 cried	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 here	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 be	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 be	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 be	advmod
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 where	advmod
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 be	nsubj
17	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 be	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	we	here property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Mongan		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be in a quote	should	we		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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