Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 23
“Why are you killing the boy?” she demanded.
Who acts: you, cow · What happens: kill, demand · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cow), 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 killing | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 killing | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 killing | nsubj |
| 5 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 demanded | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killing | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 demanded | nsubj |
| 11 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | you | the boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | cow | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
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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