Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 23

“Tell me, my little prince and pulse, what your name is, and how you have come into the middle of a hunting-pack, and why you are naked?”

Who acts: you, name, your · What happens: tell, be, come, name · To what, where: little prince, bystander, middle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, name, your), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prince	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prince	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulse	cc
9	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prince	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 prince	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 pack	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pack	det
26	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pack	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 hunting	punct
28	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 middle	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 naked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 naked	cc
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 naked	advmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 naked	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 naked	cop
34	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Tell	parataxis
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my little prince and pulse	a bystander = bystander			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	your name					tree rules
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	you			the middle of a hunting pack		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial_Location
4	is in a quote	present	you				naked property	tree rules
5	name in a quote		your					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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