Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 49
“What did you say your name was, dear heart?” the poet asked.
Who acts: you, name, poet, your · What happens: say, be, ask, name · To what, where: dear heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, name, poet, your), 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 | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heart | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heart | amod |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poet | det |
| 15 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | your name | dear heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the poet | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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