Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 43

“Who should I halt for?” the lady demanded, halting all the same, as is the manner of women, who rebel against command and yet receive it.

Who acts: lady, women · What happens: halt, demand, be, rebel, receive · To what, where: same, command · 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 (lady, women), 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 halt	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 halt	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 halt	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 halt	nsubj
5	halt	halt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 demanded	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	5 halt	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 halt	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 halt	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanded	nsubj
11	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 halting	punct
13	halting	halt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 demanded	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 same	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 halting	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 manner	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 manner	case
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 manner	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 manner	det
21	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanded	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 women	case
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 manner	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rebel	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 rebel	nsubj
26	rebel	rebel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 women	acl:relcl
27	against	against	ADP	_	28 command	case
28	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rebel	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 receive	cc
30	yet	yet	ADV	_	31 receive	advmod
31	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 rebel	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 receive	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	halt in a quote	should					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	demand speech: request	past	the lady				vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	halt	gerund	the lady not said here	all same			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector same=Eventuality
4	is	present				as the manner; of women	tree rules
5	rebel	present	women			against command	vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against command=Maleficiary
6	receive	infinitive	women not said here	command	yet		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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