Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 34
He would have scolded the jackdaw, and tried to out-whistle the throstle, and wondered why his pipe got tired when the blackbird’s didn’t.
Who acts: lack, pipe, blackbird · What happens: scold, try, wonder, get, not do · To what, where: jackdaw, throstle
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lack, pipe, blackbird), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scolded | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scolded | aux |
| 4 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jackdaw | det |
| 6 | jackdaw | jackdaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scolded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 whistle | case |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 whistle | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 whistle | punct |
| 13 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 throstle | det |
| 15 | throstle | throstle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tried | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wondered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wondered | cc |
| 18 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tried | conj |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 got | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wondered | advcl |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 got | xcomp |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 did | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blackbird | det |
| 26 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 did | nsubj |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 blackbird | case |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | advcl |
| 29 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 did | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | would · perfect | lack | the jackdaw | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackdaw=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | lack not said here | the throstle | to whistle | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throstle=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | lack not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | get | past | lack's pipe | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not do | past | the blackbird | 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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