Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16
“But how does that come about?” the abbot inquired.
Who acts: that, abbot · What happens: come about, inquire · 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 (that, abbot), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 inquired | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 abbot | det |
| 11 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come about in a quote | present · do-support | that | about property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the abbot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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