Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 36
Flahri considered the king’s suggestion.
Who acts: Flahri, king · What happens: consider, suggest · To what, where: suggestion
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flahri, 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 | Flahri | Flahri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suggestion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 considered | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Flahri | the king's suggestion | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent suggestion=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | suggest | the king | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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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