Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 9

What tales that man could tell a boy, and what questions a boy could ask him.

Who acts: tales, questions · What happens: tale, tell, ask · To what, where: man, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, questions), 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 tales	nsubj
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tales	nmod:unmarked
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ask	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 ask	obj
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ask	nsubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 questions	appos
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	aux
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ask	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tale			that man		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	could	tales		a boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	could	questions		man	tree rules

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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