Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 64
“No, but what I do wish to know is, Will she marry me?”
Who acts: Crimthann, place · What happens: wish, know, be, marry · To what, where: Crimthann · 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 (Crimthann, 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 | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 wish | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wish | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 wish | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wish | aux |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marry | punct |
| 13 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | Crimthann | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Crimthann not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future | place | Crimthann | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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