Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 20

“All that can be rightly asked will be royally bestowed,” was the king’s answer.

What happens: be, bestow · To what, where: All, answer · 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: 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	_	11 bestowed	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 bestowed	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 All	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	cop
6	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	7 asked	advmod
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 All	acl:relcl
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bestowed	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 bestowed	aux:pass
10	royally	royally	ADV	_	11 bestowed	advmod
11	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 answer	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bestowed	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 bestowed	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answer	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	can		ask, rightly property	tree rules
2	bestow in a quote	future · passive	All	royally property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	past	the king's answer		tree rules

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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