Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 20

“Who are you?” roared the staring black-mouth with the red tongue squirming in it like a frisky fish.

Who acts: you, red tongue · What happens: be, roar, stare, squirm · To what, where: staring black mouth, tongue

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, red tongue), 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	_	7 roared	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 roared	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Who	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Who	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Who	punct
7	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouth	det
9	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mouth	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouth	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 black	punct
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roared	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 tongue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tongue	det
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tongue	amod
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouth	nmod
17	squirming	squirm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 tongue	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 squirming	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 fish	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fish	det
22	frisky	frisky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fish	amod
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 squirming	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 roared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you				tree rules
2	roar	past		the staring black mouth		with the red tongue	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	stare	gerund					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	squirm	gerund	the red tongue not said here		tongue	like a frisky fish	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «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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