Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14
“Why should you wonder at a woman in a chariot?” his companion inquired, for Crimthann loved and would have knowledge.
Who acts: you, companion, Crimthann · What happens: wonder, inquire, love, have · To what, where: knowledge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, companion, Crimthann), 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 | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 wonder | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonder | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wonder | nsubj |
| 5 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wonder | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chariot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chariot | det |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 companion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquired | nsubj |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loved | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 loved | mark |
| 19 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 loved | nsubj |
| 20 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inquired | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 loved | conj |
| 24 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | should | you | at a woman in a chariot | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | King's companion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | past | Crimthann | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | have | would | Crimthann not said here | knowledge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient |
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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