Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 20
“O son of a king,” said she, “I demand a game with you for stakes.”
Who acts: son, Becuma · What happens: say, demand · To what, where: game · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Becuma), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 son | discourse |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 demand | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 demand | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 demand | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 demand | nsubj |
| 14 | demand | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demand | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 demand | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 stakes | case |
| 20 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 demand | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son of a king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request in a quote | present | Becuma | a game | with you; for stakes | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme game=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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