Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 20

“But why did you choose this river out of all the rivers?”

Who acts: you · What happens: choose · To what, where: river, rivers

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	_	6 choose	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 choose	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 choose	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 choose	nsubj
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	13 rivers	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 rivers	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rivers	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rivers	det
13	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 choose	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	past · do-support	you	this river		all rivers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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