Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 15
“What is your trouble?” the gentle queen asked.
What happens: be, ask · To what, where: trouble, gentle queen · 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: 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 trouble | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 9 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 queen | amod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trouble | appos |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 queen | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | participle | the gentle queen not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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