Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 20
“Against whom do you desire protection?”
Who acts: you · What happens: desire · To what, where: protection
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 (you), 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 | _ | 6 desire | punct |
| 2 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 3 whom | case |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 desire | obl |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 desire | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 desire | nsubj |
| 6 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 desire | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 desire | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire in a quote | present · do-support | you | protection | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=Theme |
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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