Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 16
“What can we hope from that Carl?” a champion demanded savagely.
Who acts: we · What happens: hope, demand · To what, where: Carl, champion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 hope | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 hope | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hope | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Carl | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Carl | det |
| 8 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hope | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Carl | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Carl | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 champion | det |
| 12 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Carl | appos |
| 13 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 champion | acl |
| 14 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 13 demanded | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | can | we | that Carl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | a champion not said here | savagely property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=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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