Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 18
“You are certainly in trouble,” the queen assented.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, assent · To what, where: trouble, queen
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 (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 | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | appos |
| 11 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 queen | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | trouble | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | assent | participle | the queen not said here | tree rules |
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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