Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 6
“Why should you be happy?” the astonished king demanded.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, demand · To what, where: astonished king · 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), 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 | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 happy | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 12 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 king | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | you | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | the astonished king not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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