Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 12
“Well, my dear heart,” said the king, “have you decided not to keep that engagement?”
Who acts: dear heart, you · What happens: say, decide, not keep · To what, where: king, engagement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear heart, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 heart | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decided | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 decided | punct |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 decided | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 decided | nsubj |
| 16 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 keep | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 engagement | det |
| 21 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | my dear heart | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that engagement | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=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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