Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 40

“I’d like to marry either of you, or both of you, or whichever of you came first.”

Who acts: Hag, you · What happens: have, like, marry, come · To what, where: either · 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 (Hag, you), 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	_	3 ’d	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’d	nsubj
3	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ’d	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	6 marry	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 either	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 you	cc
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 you	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whichever	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 whichever	cc
17	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 you	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 whichever	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ’d	conj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 came	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Hag			tree rules
2	like in a quote	infinitive	Hag not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Hag not said here	either		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Patient
4	come in a quote	past	you		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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