Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 38
“The royal captain intends to visit you.”
Who acts: royal captain · What happens: intend, visit · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal captain), 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 intends | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 captain | amod |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intends | nsubj |
| 5 | intends | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 visit | mark |
| 7 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 intends | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 visit | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 intends | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 intends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend in a quote | present | the royal captain | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | visit not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the royal captain not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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