Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 18

He called Mongan over to him, and spoke to him very threateningly and ragingly.

Who acts: Branduv · What happens: call over, speak · To what, where: Mongan, King, Branduv · 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 (Branduv), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 called	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	obl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 threateningly	advmod
13	threateningly	threateningly	ADV	_	9 spoke	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ragingly	cc
15	ragingly	ragingly	ADV	_	13 threateningly	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call over speech: assert	past	Branduv	Mongan	King			over property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mongan=Topic to he=Recipient
2	speak speech: other	past			Branduv			threateningly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=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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