Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 21
“When the king’s wife saw me she desired me.
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, desire · To what, where: brown flood
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 10 desired | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 desired | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 desired | nsubj |
| 10 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 desired | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the king's wife | the brown flood = flood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | desire in a quote | past | wife | the brown flood = flood | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
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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