Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 28
“I wish to find out if you truly love me.”
Who acts: King, you · What happens: wish, find out, love · To what, where: King
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 (King, 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 love | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 love | nsubj |
| 9 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 10 love | advmod |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 love | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | King | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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