Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 86
"What scoundrel struck that blow?" asked the king of Erin.
Who acts: scoundrel, king · What happens: strike, ask · To what, where: blow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scoundrel, 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 | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 struck | obj |
| 3 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 blow | det |
| 6 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Erin | case |
| 13 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | past | scoundrel | that blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient blow=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king of Erin | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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