Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 11
“How goes it, mac an Da’v?” said the king.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, mac, say · To what, where: palm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 goes | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 goes | advmod |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 goes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mac | punct |
| 6 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 goes | advcl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Da’v | det |
| 8 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Da’v | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Da’v | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mac | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | palm | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mac in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the king | 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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