Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 31
“And,” the king continued, “I do not seem to know the young man.”
Who acts: king, gentleman · What happens: continue, not seem, know · To what, where: young man
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, gentleman), 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 | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 continued | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 And | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 And | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seem | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 seem | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seem | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seem | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 seem | advmod |
| 13 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 continued | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seem | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not seem in a quote | present · do-support | gentleman | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | gentleman not said here | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=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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