Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 29
The king wished to see him, and Fionn must have wondered what the king thought as that gracious lord looked on him.
Who acts: king · What happens: wish, see, wonder, think, look · To what, where: King, Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondered | cc |
| 9 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wondered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wondered | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wondered | aux |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wished | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 looked | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 king | acl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lord | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 lord | det |
| 19 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lord | amod |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wondered | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | must · perfect · passive | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | participle | the king not said here | as that gracious lord | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the king | on Fionn | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |
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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