Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 60

“What sort of a lie was the lie, master?”

Who acts: sort · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: lie

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 (sort), 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	_	9 lie	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 sort	det
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 lie	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sort	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lie	det
9	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 master	punct
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	what sort of a lie	the lie and master					tree rules
2	sort in a quote			a lie					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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