Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 39
“Would she please you as a wife?” the chief demanded.
Who acts: blossom, chief · What happens: please, demand · To what, where: you · 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 (blossom, chief), 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 please | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 please | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 please | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 demanded | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 please | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 demanded | nsubj |
| 13 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please in a quote | would | blossom | you | as a wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | the chief | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
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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