Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 27

“Very well,” said Mongan reluctantly, and as if in great fear; “if you will make the exchange I will make it, although it breaks my heart.”

Who acts: Mongan, you, exchange · What happens: say, make, break · To what, where: exchange, heart · 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, you, exchange), 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 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fear	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 fear	case
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 fear	mark
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 fear	case
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fear	amod
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fear	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 exchange	det
23	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 exchange	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 breaks	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 breaks	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 breaks	nsubj
31	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 make	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 breaks	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 fear	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mongan		reluctantly, well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the exchange		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exchange=Product
3	make in a quote	future	Mongan	exchange		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	break in a quote	present	exchange	my heart		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient

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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