Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29

He is over you when he ought to be under you, and he is biting your toe when you thought you were biting his tail.

Who acts: Fionn, you · What happens: be, bite, think · To what, where: toe, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 you	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 you	cop
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 ought	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ought	nsubj
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 you	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	11 you	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 you	cop
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ought	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 biting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 biting	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 biting	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 biting	aux
16	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ought	advcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 toe	nmod:poss
18	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 biting	obj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 thought	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 biting	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 biting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 biting	aux
24	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 thought	ccomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tail	nmod:poss
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 biting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Fionn		over you	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here		under you	tree rules
3	bite	present · progressive	Fionn	your toe		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bite	past · progressive	you	Fionn's tail		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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