Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 20

“Go over yonder,” said Mongan, “and tell the Hag of the Mill that I want to talk to her.”

Who acts: Mongan, Mill · What happens: go over, say, tell, want, talk · To what, where: Hag, Mill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Mill), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
3	over	over	ADV	_	4 yonder	advmod
4	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hag	det
14	Hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Mill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Mill	det
17	Mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Hag	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 want	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Mill	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 talk	mark
22	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 talk	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go over in a quote	infinitive				yonder property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
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			the Hag of the Mill		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hag=Recipient
4	want in a quote	present	Mongan	the Mill			tree rules
5	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Mill not said here		Hag		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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