Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5
“What for the meal, dear heart?”
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 meal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meal | det |
| 5 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meal | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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