Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 3

But at last he did say something intelligible, and this is what he said.

Who acts: King, this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: something, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, this), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obj
8	intelligible	intelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 what	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 something	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	King	something	last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	is a	present	this			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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