Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 33

“What will we do at all?” said the clerk.

Who acts: we, clerk · What happens: do, say · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, clerk), 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	_	5 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 do	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clerk	det
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	we			all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past	the clerk						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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