Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 68
Who knows in what adventures the past has engaged her!”
What happens: know, engage · To what, where: past · 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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 engaged | obl |
| 5 | adventures | adventure | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 engaged | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 past | det |
| 7 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 engaged | aux |
| 9 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 engaged | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 engaged | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | engage | present · perfect · passive | the past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result |
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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