Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 38

“You can come down now,” said Mananna’n.

Who acts: You, Mananna’n · What happens: come down, say · 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 (You, Mananna’n), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mananna’n	Mananna'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	can	You				now	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Mananna’n						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.

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