Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 25
“We shall ask this woman for information about herself,” said the king decidedly.
Who acts: We, king · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: woman · 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 (We, king), 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 information | case |
| 8 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 herself | case |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 information | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | shall | We | this woman | for information about woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | decidedly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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