Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 10
“What will you give me if I deliver you from the sheep?” asked Mananna’n.
Who acts: Mananna’n, I · What happens: give, deliver, ask · To what, where: me, Mananna’n · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mananna’n, 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 give | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 deliver | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 deliver | nsubj |
| 9 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 deliver | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sheep | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sheep | det |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deliver | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Mananna’n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | Mananna’n = mananna'n | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deliver a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | Mananna’n = mananna'n | from the sheep | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme from sheep=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Mananna’n | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mananna'n=Recipient 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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