Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 26
What is the pleasing affair which brings you to this land?”
Who acts: pleasing affair · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: pleasing affair, you, land
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 (pleasing affair), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 affair | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 affair | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 affair | det |
| 4 | pleasing | pleasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 affair | amod |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 affair | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 brings | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 affair | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 affair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the pleasing affair | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | the pleasing affair | you | this land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to land=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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