Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 17

“I begin to think that you own a lucky tongue, my black-faced friend,” said Mongan, “and I will go with you.”

Who acts: I, you, Mongan · What happens: begin, think, own, say, go · To what, where: lucky tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Mongan), 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	_	3 begin	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 begin	nsubj
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begin	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 own	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 own	nsubj
8	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tongue	det
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tongue	amod
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 own	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 faced	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 black	punct
16	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 friend	amod
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tongue	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	present	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	own in a quote	present	you	a lucky tongue and my faced friend		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tongue=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Mongan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	future	Mongan		with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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