Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 43

“That will happen when pigs fly,” said mac an Da’v, “and,” said he, “I did not make any bargain with any king that is in the world.”

Who acts: That, pigs, King · What happens: happen, fly, mac, say, not make, be · To what, where: Da’v, bargain, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, pigs, King), 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	_	4 happen	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 happen	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mac	advcl
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 fly	mark
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
7	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mac	aux
11	mac	mac	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Da’v	det
13	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mac	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Da’v	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 make	advmod
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	conj
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 bargain	det
28	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 king	det
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 world	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 world	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 king	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 mac	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 mac	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen in a quote	future	That				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly in a quote	present	pigs				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mac	past		a Da’v			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not make in a quote	past · do-support	King	any bargain		with any king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
6	is in a quote	present	any king		the world		tree rules

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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