Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 25
“Did you think, Fionn, that a whale could swim on land, or what did you imagine that lump could do?”
Who acts: you, whale, lump · What happens: think, swim, imagine, do · To what, where: Fionn, land · 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 (you, whale, lump), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fionn | punct |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swim | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 swim | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 whale | det |
| 10 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swim | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 swim | aux |
| 12 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swim | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 imagine | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 imagine | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 imagine | obj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 imagine | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 imagine | nsubj |
| 20 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 lump | det |
| 22 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 imagine | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | you | Fionn | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | could | a whale | land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | imagine in a quote | past · do-support | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | could | that lump | vn act-114-1 «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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