Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 42
“And now,” she continued, “I have messages for your queen.”
Who acts: world, Iollan · What happens: continue, have · To what, where: messages · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (world, Iollan), 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 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 continued | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 continued | ccomp |
| 12 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 queen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | world | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Iollan | messages | for your queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient |
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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