Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 37
“Would you like to be a lovely young girl?” asked Mongan.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: like, be, ask · To what, where: lovely young girl, Mongan · 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 (Mongan), 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 | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 girl | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 girl | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | would | Mongan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Mongan not said here | a lovely young girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Mongan | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mongan=Recipient 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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