Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 46
“He will be asked to outrun me,” he thundered.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: ask, outrun, thunder · To what, where: stranger, Fionn
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 (stranger), 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 asked | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | aux:pass |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thundered | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 outrun | mark |
| 7 | outrun | outrun | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 outrun | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thundered | nsubj |
| 12 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future · passive | stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | outrun not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thunder | past | stranger | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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