Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21
“What new master is this they have found?”
Who acts: new master, Bran · What happens: be, find
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new master, Bran), 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 | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 found | obl |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 master | amod |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 What | nsubj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | new master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · perfect | Bran | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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