Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 25
“Are you sure,” she asked, “that the poets and magicians really know everything?”
Who acts: you, reason, poets · What happens: be, ask, know · To what, where: everything · 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, reason, poets), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 poets | det |
| 13 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 know | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 magicians | cc |
| 15 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 poets | conj |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | the poets and magicians | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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