Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 8
“I demand a combat,” she roared.
Who acts: jump, Conaran · What happens: demand, roar · To what, where: combat · 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 (jump, Conaran), 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 demand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 demand | nsubj |
| 3 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roared | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 combat | det |
| 5 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 demand | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 demand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 demand | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 roared | nsubj |
| 9 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request in a quote | present | jump | a combat | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme combat=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | Conaran | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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