Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 41
“And you, Oscar,” he asked, “what is to your mind the finest of music?”
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, be · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oscar | punct |
| 5 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 you | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Oscar | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 finest | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mind | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 mind | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mind | cop |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mind | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 finest | det |
| 18 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 music | case |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finest | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 finest | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 finest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | to your mind | 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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