Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 43

Mongan became angry when Duv Laca said that.

Who acts: Mongan, Duv · What happens: become, say · To what, where: that · 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, 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	advmod
5	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
6	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Duv	flat
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	advcl
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 said	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Mongan					angry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Duv	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=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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