Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 37

Mongan did not want to say anything more then, but the King of Leinster was so intent and everybody else was listening and Duv Laca was nudging his arm, so he said: “What is it that you do want?”

Who acts: Mongan, King, everybody, Duv, you · What happens: not want, say, be, listen, nudge, want · To what, where: anything, arm, 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 (Mongan, King, everybody, Duv), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 then	advmod
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 say	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 intent	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 intent	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 intent	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Leinster	case
15	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 intent	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 intent	advmod
18	intent	intent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 listening	cc
20	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 listening	nsubj
21	else	else	ADV	_	20 everybody	advmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 listening	aux
23	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 intent	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nudging	cc
25	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 nudging	nsubj
26	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Duv	flat
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 nudging	aux
28	nudging	nudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 listening	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arm	nmod:poss
30	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nudging	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 said	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	parataxis
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 it	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 it	punct
37	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 it	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 it	cop
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	ccomp
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 want	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 want	nsubj
42	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 want	aux
43	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 it	advcl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Mongan				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mongan not said here	anything	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	is	past	the King of Leinster			intent property	tree rules
4	listen	past · progressive	everybody				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	nudge	past · progressive	Duv	Mongan's arm			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
6	say speech: ask	past	Mongan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present		breast			tree rules
8	want in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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