Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 66
“It is a question that must be answered,” the king cried triumphantly.
Who acts: gaze, king · What happens: be, answer, cry · To what, where: question · 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 (gaze, 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 | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 question | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 question | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | aux:pass |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 question | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | triumphantly | triumphantly | ADV | _ | 14 cried | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | gaze | a question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | must · passive | a question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the king | triumphantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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