Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 51
“I wish to know also where you come from and to what place you are going?”
Who acts: lady, you, place · What happens: wish, know, come, go · 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, you, place), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 come | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | the lady = lady | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the lady = lady not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from what=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | place | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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