Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 47
“How does this salmon get wisdom into his flesh?”
What happens: do, get · To what, where: salmon, wisdom, flesh
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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 does | advmod |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 salmon | det |
| 5 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 flesh | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | this salmon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | wisdom | Fionn's flesh | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=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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