Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 10
What length of course do you propose, dear heart?”
Who acts: length · What happens: propose · To what, where: dear heart
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length), 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 length | det |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 propose | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | nmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 propose | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 propose | nsubj |
| 7 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heart | amod |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 propose | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | present · do-support | what length of course | dear heart | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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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