Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 4

“You may come up into the tree,” said Fiachna, “for I perceive that you are a mannerly person, and I see that some of the venomous sheep are charging in this direction.

Who acts: You, Fiachna, some · What happens: come up, say, perceive, be, see, charge · To what, where: tree, mannerly person, direction · 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, Fiachna, some), 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	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 perceive	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 perceive	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 perceive	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 perceive	nsubj
17	perceive	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 person	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 person	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 person	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 person	det
22	mannerly	mannerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 person	amod
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 perceive	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 charging	mark
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 charging	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 sheep	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sheep	det
32	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sheep	amod
33	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 some	nmod
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 charging	aux
35	charging	charge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 see	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 direction	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 direction	det
38	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 charging	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come up in a quote	may	You		the tree	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Fiachna			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	perceive in a quote	present	Fiachna			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	you	a mannerly person		tree rules
5	see in a quote	present	Fiachna			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	charge in a quote	present · progressive	some		this direction	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory

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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