Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“Are we in Faery?” the Flame Lady asked.
Who acts: we, Faery · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Faery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Faery), 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 Faery | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Faery | cop |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Faery | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Faery | case |
| 5 | Faery | Faery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Faery | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Faery | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lady | det |
| 9 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lady | compound |
| 10 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | we | Faery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Faery | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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