Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 11
“When the king says he loves you, ask him to prove it by gifts; ask for his drinking-horn first.”
Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, love, ask, prove · To what, where: you, King, whispering · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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 | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 says | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 loves | nsubj |
| 7 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 loves | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 prove | mark |
| 13 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 prove | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 gifts | case |
| 16 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prove | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ask | punct |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 horn | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horn | nmod:poss |
| 21 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 horn | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 drinking | punct |
| 23 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obl |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 ask | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | King | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | you not said here | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | prove not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | whispering | by gifts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | for King's drinking horn; first property | 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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