Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 67
“But,” he continued, “to learn what woman she is, or where she comes from, might bring us torment as well as information.
Who acts: King, woman · What happens: continue, learn, be, come, bring · To what, where: woman, torment, us
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 (King, woman), 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 | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 continued | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 learn | mark |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 woman | det:predet |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 learn | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 woman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 comes | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 comes | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 comes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 comes | parataxis |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 information | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 29 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | what woman | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | woman | what woman not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | might | torment | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination torment=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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