Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 19

“Why should you think that?” inquired Mongan.

Who acts: you, Mongan · What happens: think, inquire · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mongan), 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 think	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 think	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inquired	ccomp
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 think	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	should	you	that					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past	Mongan						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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