Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 19
“What,” said he, “will be given to the man who undertakes this defence?”
Who acts: man · What happens: say, give, undertake · To what, where: man, defence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 undertakes | nsubj |
| 16 | undertakes | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 defence | det |
| 18 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 undertakes | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future · passive | the man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to man=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | undertake in a quote | present | the man | this defence | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Eventuality |
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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