Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 44

“Was Mongan Fionn?” he asked in a whisper.

Who acts: Mongan Fionn · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Mongan Fionn, whisper · 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 Fionn), 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	_	4 Fionn	punct
2	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Fionn	cop
3	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fionn	compound
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Fionn	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Fionn	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 whisper	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 whisper	det
11	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		Mongan Fionn					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Mongan Fionn			a whisper			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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