Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 61
“Thus I do not really require to know this lady’s name, nor do I care from what direction she comes.”
Who acts: heart, lady · What happens: not require, know, care, come, name · To what, where: name, direction
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 (heart, lady), 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 | _ | 7 require | punct |
| 2 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 require | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 require | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 require | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 require | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 require | advmod |
| 7 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 require | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 lady | case |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 care | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 care | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 care | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 care | nsubj |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 require | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 direction | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 direction | nsubj |
| 21 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 care | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 direction | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 require | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not require in a quote | present · do-support | My heart = heart | thus property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | My heart = heart not said here | this lady's name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | care in a quote | present · do-support | My heart = heart | direction | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | lady | direction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name in a quote | this lady | 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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