Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 15

“Now,” said Mongan to the hag, “tell the servant to say that you would not leave your own husband for all the wealth of the world.”

Who acts: Mongan, hag · What happens: say, tell, not leave · To what, where: hag, servant, own husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, hag), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 hag	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hag	det
9	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servant	det
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 leave	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 leave	advmod
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 husband	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 husband	amod
24	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 wealth	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 wealth	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wealth	det
28	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wealth	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mongan		the hag	now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hag=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the servant				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not leave in a quote	would	the hag = hag	your own husband			for all wealth of the world	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for wealth=Recipient

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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