Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 17
“Would you have got as good poems by the Shannon or the Suir or by sweet Ana Life’?”
Who acts: you · What happens: get · To what, where: good poems
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 poems | amod |
| 8 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Shannon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Shannon | det |
| 11 | Shannon | Shannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 poems | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Suir | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Suir | det |
| 14 | Suir | Suir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Shannon | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 Life | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Life | case |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Life | amod |
| 18 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Life | compound |
| 19 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Shannon | conj |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Life | punct |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | would · perfect | you | good poems | by the Shannon or the Suir or sweet Ana Life | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poem=Stimulus |
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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