Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 27
“Queer indeed,” said Mongan, “but what is it that you do want?”
Who acts: Mongan, lie, you · What happens: say, be, want · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, lie, you), 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 | _ | 2 Queer | punct |
| 2 | Queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Queer | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queer | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queer | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 what | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 want | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 what | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Mongan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | lie | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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