Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12
“What is the name of your story?” he asked.
Who acts: neighbourhood · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: name, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood), 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 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 story | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the name | of your story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | neighbourhood | your story not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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