Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 11
“What have you been in with me for ages?” said the amazed king.
Who acts: you, amazed king · What happens: have, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, amazed king), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 have | obj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 me | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ages | case |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 me | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 15 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 king | amod |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | participle | for ages | in the amazed king = king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the amazed king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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