Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 15

All that I have they give me, all that I have I give to them, and if I must give this also, then I will give this, although it would be easier for me to give my life.”

Who acts: I, All, it, me · What happens: have, give, be · To what, where: me, that, king, this, life

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 (I, All, it, me), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 give	nsubj:outer
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 have	obj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 All	acl:relcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 have	det:predet
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 have	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 give	obj
24	also	also	ADV	_	22 give	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 give	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 give	aux
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 give	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 easier	punct
32	although	although	SCONJ	_	36 easier	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 easier	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 easier	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 easier	cop
36	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 give	parataxis
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 give	mark
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 give	nsubj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 give	mark
40	give	give	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 easier	ccomp
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 give	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
2	give	infinitive	All		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	have	present	I	that				tree rules
4	give	infinitive	I		king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5	give a condition, not said to happen	must	I	this				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
6	give	future	I	this		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
7	is	would	it				easy property	tree rules
8	give	to-infinitive	me	my life				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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