Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 30
“I mean, what would you do with All Knowledge?”
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: mean, do
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 (boy, 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Knowledge | case |
| 10 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Knowledge | det |
| 11 | Knowledge | Knowledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | the boy = boy | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | would | you | with all Knowledge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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