Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 48
“Where is the Flower of Allen?” his master demanded.
Who acts: Flower, master · What happens: be, demand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flower, master), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Flower | det |
| 5 | Flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Allen | case |
| 7 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Flower | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demanded | nsubj |
| 12 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Flower of Allen | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | Allen's master | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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