Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 5

I would rather protect you,” he continued, “than see you killed; for,” said he lamentably, “I am getting down now to fight the sheep.”

Who acts: I, Fiachna, you · What happens: protect, continue, see, kill, say, get down · To what, where: you, sheep · 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 (I, Fiachna, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 protect	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 protect	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 protect	advmod
4	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 protect	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 protect	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 protect	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 continued	nsubj
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 protect	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 continued	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 see	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 said	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 for	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 for	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 protect	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lamentably	nsubj
22	lamentably	lamentably	ADV	_	20 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 getting	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 getting	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 getting	aux
27	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	advcl
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 getting	advmod
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 getting	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 fight	mark
31	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 getting	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sheep	det
33	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fight	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 protect	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 protect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	protect	would	I	you			tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	Fiachna				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	Fiachna not said here	you			tree rules
4	kill	participle	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Fiachna not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	get down	present · progressive	I		now	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
7	fight	to-infinitive	I not said here	the sheep			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Co-Agent

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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