Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 4

“If you will consider it to be justice, I will give you twenty cows myself,” said Fiachna.

Who acts: you, Fiachna · What happens: consider, be, give, say · To what, where: judgement, justice, twenty cows, you · 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 (you, Fiachna), 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 consider	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 consider	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 consider	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 consider	aux
5	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 consider	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 justice	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 justice	cop
9	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consider	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consider	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 cows	nummod
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 cows	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 consider	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 consider	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	consider a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	judgement		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	justice		tree rules
3	give in a quote	future	Fiachna	twenty cows myself	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cow=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Fiachna			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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/77/4/