Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 25

“What!” his master demanded wrathfully, “is a spear to be thrown at an unarmed stranger?

What happens: demand, be, throw · To what, where: spear, unarmed stranger · 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: 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 demanded	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 demanded	nsubj:outer
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demanded	nsubj
7	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	wrathfully	wrathfully	ADV	_	7 demanded	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spear	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 spear	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 spear	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spear	det
13	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 demanded	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	16 thrown	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thrown	aux:pass
16	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 spear	acl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 stranger	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stranger	det
19	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stranger	amod
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thrown	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past			wrathfully property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	a spear			tree rules
3	throw in a quote	to-infinitive · passive		a unarmed stranger		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: at stranger=Destination

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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