Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 19

“But,” she continued, “for what purpose have you come to our island?”

Who acts: land, purpose, you · What happens: continue, have, come · To what, where: island

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 (land, purpose, 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 continued	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 continued	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 continued	nsubj
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 continued	obl
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 island	nmod:poss
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	continue	past	land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	purpose		tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	you	our island	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location

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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