Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 35
“What is your demand?” said the Ard-Ri’.
Who acts: demand · What happens: be, say · To what, where: demand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demand), 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 demand | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 demand | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 demand | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 demand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 demand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 demand | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ri | det |
| 10 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ri | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ard | punct |
| 12 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ri | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your demand | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | your demand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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