Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 35
“If it is in Ulster I will get it for you,” said Mongan mournfully.
Who acts: breast, Mongan · What happens: be, get, say · To what, where: Ulster, breast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breast, 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 | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Ulster | case |
| 6 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | breast | Ulster | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ulster=Location | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | future | Mongan | breast | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mongan | mournfully property | 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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