Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 22
“How well you explain my feelings about Duv Laca,” said the king.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: explain, say · To what, where: feelings · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 explain | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 explain | nsubj |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 explain | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Duv | case |
| 9 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 feelings | nmod |
| 10 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Duv | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 explain | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert in a quote | present | you | my feelings | about Duv; well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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