Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 9

So she was continually asking him little, simple questions a’ propos of every kind of thing.

Who acts: lament · What happens: ask · To what, where: little simple questions, husband

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lament), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 asking	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asking	aux
4	continually	continually	ADV	_	5 asking	advmod
5	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	obj
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 questions	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 little	punct
9	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 questions	amod
10	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asking	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 propos	det
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 propos	punct
13	propos	propo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asking	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 kind	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 propos	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 thing	case
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	lament	little simple questions	husband			continually property	tree rules

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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