Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 20
“Of what blood are you, young gentleman?”
Who acts: blood · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood), 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 | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gentleman | punct |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gentleman | amod |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | blood | tree rules |
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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