Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 34

“Tell me,” Mongan commenced, “if you got a wish, what it is you would wish for?”

Who acts: you, Mongan, wish · What happens: tell, commence, get, be · To what, where: hag, wish · 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 (you, Mongan, wish), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 commenced	nsubj
7	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 got	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 commenced	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wish	det
14	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wish	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wish	obj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wish	cop
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 wish	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wish	aux
21	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wish	acl:relcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	21 wish	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the hag = hag		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	commence	past	Mongan				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	a wish			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	would · present	wish			wish property	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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