Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 23
“What errand has brought you here?”
What happens: bring · To what, where: errand
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: 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 brought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 errand | det |
| 3 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | what errand | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |
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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