Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 32

It may be imagined, therefore, with what wrath he saw his wife’s preparations for her journey, but, although a king can do everything, what can a husband do...?

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: imagine, see, do, prepare, journey · To what, where: Shi, preparations, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (king, wife), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 imagined	nsubj:pass
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 imagined	aux:pass
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 therefore	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 imagined	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wrath	case
9	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 wrath	det
10	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preparations	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 wife	case
16	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 journey	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 journey	nmod:poss
19	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preparations	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saw	ccomp
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 do	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 do	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 do	det
33	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	compound
34	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 everything	appos
35	...	...	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 imagined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	may · passive		Shi	therefore property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	past	king	king's wife's preparations	with what wrath; for wife's journey	tree rules
3	do	can	a king	everything		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	do	can				tree rules
5	prepare		king's wife		for wife's journey	nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl
6	journey		wife			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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