Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6

“What must I tell?” asked Tuan resignedly.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, ask · To what, where: Tuan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 tell	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	iobj
10	resignedly	resignedly	ADV	_	8 asked	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	I						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past			Tuan			resignedly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent tuan=Recipient clause=Topic

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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