Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 14

“What is the early rising for, dear heart?”

What happens: be · To what, where: early rising

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 rising	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rising	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rising	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rising	det
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rising	amod
6	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 heart	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heart	punct
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heart	amod
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rising	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rising	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the early rising				for dear heart	tree rules

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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