Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 32
“I want to make sure that it is whiskers they are wearing.”
Who acts: Chief, hole, whiskers · What happens: want, make, be, wear · To what, where: whiskers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chief, hole, whiskers), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 whiskers | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 whiskers | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 whiskers | cop |
| 10 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wearing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wearing | aux |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 whiskers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | the Chief = chief | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Chief = chief not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | hole | whiskers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | present · progressive | whiskers = whisker | whiskers not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent whisker=Source |
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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