Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 42

“No,” said Mongan, “I’ll send them a mile down the stream, and then they can come to land.”

Who acts: Mongan, gods · What happens: say, send, come · To what, where: gods, land · 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 (Mongan, gods), 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 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 send	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 send	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 send	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 send	aux
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 send	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mile	det
14	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 stream	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 land	case
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mongan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	send in a quote	future	Mongan	gods = god			down the stream	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination mile=Theme
3	come in a quote	can	gods = god		land	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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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