Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 32

“I would,” cried the King of Leinster, and he thumped his knee as he said it.

Who acts: King · What happens: cry, thump, say · To what, where: knee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 would	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Leinster	case
10	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thumped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thumped	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thumped	nsubj
14	thumped	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 knee	nmod:poss
16	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thumped	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thumped	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the King of Leinster		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thump	past	king	king's knee	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	king	knee	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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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