Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 26

“This is a wonderful hour and a glorious minute,” said the hag, “for this is the first time in sixty years that any one wanted to talk to me.

Who acts: This, hag, one, sixty years · What happens: be, say, want, talk · To what, where: wonderful hour, sixty years, hag · 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 (This, hag, one, sixty years), 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	_	6 hour	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hour	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hour	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 minute	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 minute	det
9	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 minute	amod
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hour	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hour	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 hour	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hag	det
15	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 time	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hag	appos
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 years	case
25	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 time	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wanted	obj
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 years	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 talk	mark
32	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wanted	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 talk	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a wonderful hour and a glorious minute			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the hag				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	this			for the first time; year	tree rules
4	want in a quote	past	any one	sixty years			tree rules
5	talk not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	sixty years not said here		the hag = hag		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=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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