Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 35

“We will be sensible,” said Tibraide’ sternly, “and we will go about our business,” said he.

Who acts: We, Tibraide · What happens: be, say, go · 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, Tibraide), 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 sensible	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sensible	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sensible	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sensible	cop
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sensible	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sensible	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sensible	conj
9	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 Tibraide	punct
11	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 business	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 business	nmod:poss
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sensible	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sensible	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	We	sensible property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Tibraide	sternly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	future	we	about our business	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about business=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Tibraide		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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