Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 27
“But,” sobbed mac an Da’v, “what right have I to complain?
Who acts: king · What happens: sob, have, complain · To what, where: sobbed mac
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 | _ | 6 mac | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 mac | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mac | amod |
| 6 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Da’v | det |
| 8 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mac | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 have | obj |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mac | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 complain | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 complain | mark |
| 16 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | participle | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | sobbed mac | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king | vn complain-37.8 «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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