Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 2
“How are we going to get into the castle?” asked mac an Da’v.
Who acts: we · What happens: go, get, ask · To what, where: asked mac, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 mac | amod |
| 14 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | xcomp |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Da’v | det |
| 16 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | asked mac | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the castle | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into castle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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