Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 12

“Sit in this chair, mother,” said Mongan, “and tell me what you thought you saw,” and he slipped a spike under her, and mac an Da’v pushed her into the seat, and she died on the spike.

Who acts: Mongan, you, fog, Da’v, hag · What happens: sit, say, tell, think, see, slip · To what, where: chair, Mongan, spike, hag, seat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, you, fog, Da’v), 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	_	2 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chair	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chair	det
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chair	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 thought	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slipped	nsubj
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spike	det
28	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slipped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mac	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mac	cc
33	mac	mac	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Da’v	det
35	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 pushed	nsubj
36	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mac	ccomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pushed	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 seat	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 seat	det
40	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pushed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 died	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 died	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 died	nsubj
44	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 pushed	conj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 spike	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 spike	det
47	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 died	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	infinitive				this chair and mother		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Mongan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Mongan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	you					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
5	see in a quote	past	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	slip	past	fog	a spike			under hag	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent spike=Patient
7	mac	infinitive						tree rules
8	push	past	a Da’v	hag		the seat		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into seat=Destination
9	die	past	hag			the spike		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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