Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 20
“Don’t ask riddles of a man that’s eating blackberries,” the Carl rebuked him.
Who acts: you, riddles, Carl, man · What happens: not ask, eat, rebuke, riddle · To what, where: riddles, blackberries, Cael · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, riddles, Carl, man), 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riddles | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ’s | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’s | xcomp |
| 12 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eating | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Carl | det |
| 16 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 rebuked | nsubj |
| 17 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rebuked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | riddles of a man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent riddle=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | riddles of a man not said here | blackberries | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackberry=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rebuke | past | the Carl | Cael | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | riddle in a quote | a man | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=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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