Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2
“What is the meaning of this journey on Sunday?” he demanded.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, demand · To what, where: meaning, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 meaning | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meaning | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 journey | det |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meaning | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Sunday | case |
| 10 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 journey | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sunday | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 journey | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 demanded | nsubj |
| 14 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 journey | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the meaning | of this journey on Sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | king | this journey on Sunday not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme journey=Precondition |
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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