Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4
What stories they would have told the child of the sons of Morna.
What happens: tell · To what, where: stories, child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | aux |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sons | det |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 child | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Morna | case |
| 13 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | would · perfect · passive | what stories | the child of the sons of Morna | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient child=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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