Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 34
“Duv Laca is there; see her, and ask her what she wants me to do.”
Who acts: Duv, me · What happens: be, ask, want, do · To what, where: Duv, me · 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 (Duv, me), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 3 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duv | flat |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 wants | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wants | nsubj |
| 15 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wants | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wants | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | see property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | Duv | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Duv | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | me not said here | 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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