Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 32
“The King of Leinster will ask his wizards what I am doing, and this is what I will be doing.
Who acts: King, this · What happens: ask, do, be · To what, where: wizards · 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 (King, this), 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 | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Leinster | case |
| 5 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wizards | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 doing | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | aux |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 what | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 what | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ask | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 doing | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 doing | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 doing | aux |
| 22 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | the King of Leinster | king's wizards | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | the King of Leinster = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future · progressive | the King of Leinster = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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