Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 50

Cairide’ agreed that it was ill done, but to himself he said gleefully that whenever he was asked to tell the story of how he told the story of Mongan he would remember what the abbot said.

Who acts: Cairide, abbot · What happens: agree, do, say, ask, tell, remember · To what, where: part, Cairide, story · 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 (Cairide, abbot), 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	Cairide	Cairide	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
2	’	'	X	_	1 Cairide	flat:foreign
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 done	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 done	advmod
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 agreed	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
15	gleefully	gleefully	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 asked	mark
17	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 asked	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	aux:pass
20	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 told	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 story	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Mongan	case
32	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 story	nmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 remember	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 remember	aux
35	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	ccomp
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 said	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 abbot	det
38	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 remember	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Cairide				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · passive		part			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Cairide		Cairide	gleefully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	ask speech: ask	past · passive		Cairide		whenever property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cairide not said here	the story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	past	Cairide	the story of Mongan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
7	remember	would	Cairide				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	the abbot				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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