Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 6

To ask questions can become the laziest and wobbliest occupation of a mind, but when you must yourself answer the problem that you have posed, you will meditate your question with care and frame it with precision.

Who acts: questions, you, your · What happens: ask, become, answer, pose, meditate, occupy · To what, where: laziest occupation, problem, question, mind · 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 (questions, you, 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	To	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 occupation	det
7	laziest	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 occupation	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wobbliest	cc
9	wobbliest	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 laziest	conj
10	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mind	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mind	det
13	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occupation	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 meditate	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 meditate	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 answer	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 answer	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	aux
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 answer	nsubj
20	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 meditate	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 problem	det
22	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answer	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 posed	nsubj:pass
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 posed	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 posed	aux
26	posed	pose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 problem	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answer	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 meditate	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 meditate	aux
30	meditate	meditate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	conj
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 question	nmod:poss
32	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meditate	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 care	case
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meditate	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 frame	cc
36	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 care	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 meditate	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 precision	case
39	precision	precision	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meditate	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become	can	questions	the laziest occupation of a mind		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	must	you	the problem		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent problem=Eventuality
4	pose	present · perfect · passive		the problem		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	meditate	future	you	your question	with care and frame; with precision	tree rules
6	occupy			a mind		nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient
7	question		your			nom question «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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