Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 29

“What should there be after that?” the poet retorted.

What happens: be, retort · To what, where: poet · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	_	4 there	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 there	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 there	aux
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	cop
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 be	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poet	det
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	nsubj
12	retorted	retort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 poet	acl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should						there property	tree rules
2	retort speech: other	participle		the poet not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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