Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 5
And that one: “Mind the little knees among the nettles.”
Who acts: one · What happens: mind · To what, where: little knees
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 one | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mind | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mind | punct |
| 6 | Mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knees | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knees | amod |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Mind | obj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 nettles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nettles | det |
| 12 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Mind | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind in a quote | infinitive | that one not said here | the little knees | among the nettles | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme |
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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