Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 21
“What business is it of yours?” said Mongan angrily.
Who acts: business · What happens: be, say · To what, where: business · 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 (business), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 it | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 it | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | business | business | of yours | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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