Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 9

Mongan heard the whispering, and he told the hag that if she did what he advised she would certainly get either himself or the King of Leinster for a husband.

Who acts: Mongan, Ivell · What happens: hear, tell, do, advise, get · To what, where: whispering, hag, Ivell · 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, Ivell), 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	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whispering	det
4	whispering	whispering	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hag	det
10	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 get	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 did	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 get	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 advised	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 advised	nsubj
17	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 did	ccomp
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
22	either	either	CCONJ	_	23 himself	cc:preconj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 get	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 King	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 himself	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Leinster	case
28	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 King	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 husband	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 husband	det
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Mongan	the whispering			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whispering=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	Ivell		the hag		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hag=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do a condition, not said to happen	past	Mongan				tree rules
4	advise speech: other	past	Ivell				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	get	would	Mongan	Ivell		for a husband; certainly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for husband=Beneficiary

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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