Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
“I will call him a bad husband and astonish him, and he will forget everything but his own alarm and indignation.”
Who acts: Becfola, king · What happens: call, astonish, forget, alarm · To what, where: king, everything · 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 (Becfola, king), 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 | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 husband | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 husband | amod |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 call | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 astonish | cc |
| 10 | astonish | astonish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 astonish | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forget | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forget | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forget | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 forget | aux |
| 16 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | conj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 forget | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 alarm | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 alarm | amod |
| 21 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 everything | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 indignation | cc |
| 23 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 everything | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | future | Becfola | king | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | astonish in a quote | infinitive | Becfola not said here | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | future | king | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | alarm in a quote | king | nom alarm «feeling 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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