Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 67
“Who was the fish given to?” his companion wondered.
Who acts: companion · What happens: be, give, wonder · To what, where: fish · 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 (companion), 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 | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wondered | parataxis |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fish | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 given | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wondered | nsubj |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the fish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | participle | the fish not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | poet's companion | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=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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