Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 46
“Tell us, chief,” one ventured, “what you think?”
Who acts: one, you · What happens: tell, venture, think · To what, where: chief, us · 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 (one, 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ventured | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chief | punct |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 ventured | nsubj |
| 9 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 think | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ventured | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 ventured | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | one not said here | chief | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient chief=Topic | |||
| 2 | venture | past | one | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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