Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 8

“Where ought I be, then?” said Mongan.

Who acts: Mongan · What happens: be, say · 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 (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	_	5 be	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 be	advmod
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 be	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	ought	Mongan				then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Mongan						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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