Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 34
“It shall be done as this sweet queen advises.
Who acts: sweet queen · What happens: do, advise · To what, where: head
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 (sweet queen), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 advises | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 queen | det |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 queen | amod |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advises | nsubj |
| 10 | advises | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall · passive | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | advise speech: other in a quote | present | this sweet queen | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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