Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 6
“Is the move that you are thinking of in my power?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, think · To what, where: move
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 move | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 move | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 move | det |
| 4 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 thinking | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 thinking | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thinking | aux |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 move | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thinking | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the move | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | you | the move not said here | of my power | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot move=Theme |
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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