Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 9
“How long have you been here?” was the next query.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, be · To what, where: next query
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 | _ | 13 query | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 query | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 have | advcl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 been | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 query | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 query | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 query | amod |
| 13 | query | query | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 query | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | participle | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the next query | tree rules |
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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