Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 22
“What shall I do?” she inquired, “am I to wed you or your son?”
Who acts: wife · What happens: do, inquire, wed · To what, where: you · 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 (wife), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inquired | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 inquired | nsubj |
| 9 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wed | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wed | punct |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wed | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wed | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wed | mark |
| 15 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 inquired | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wed | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 son | cc |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 you | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 wed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wed in a quote | present | wife | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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