Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 27
“Come on, Goll,” he would say to his stag, or, lifting it over a tussock with a tough grip on the snout, “Are you coming, bald Cona’n, or shall I kick you in the neck?”
Who acts: Fionn, stag · What happens: come on, say, lift, come, kick · To what, where: Goll, stag, tussock, bald Cona’n, neck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, stag), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Goll | punct |
| 5 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stag | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lifting | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lifting | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lifting | punct |
| 17 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 say | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lifting | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 tussock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tussock | det |
| 21 | tussock | tussock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifting | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 grip | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 grip | det |
| 24 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grip | amod |
| 25 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifting | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 snout | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 snout | det |
| 28 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grip | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 coming | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 coming | punct |
| 31 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 coming | aux |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 coming | nsubj |
| 33 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 lifting | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Cona’n | punct |
| 35 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Cona’n | amod |
| 36 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 coming | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 kick | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 kick | cc |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 kick | aux |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 kick | nsubj |
| 41 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 say | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 kick | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 neck | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 neck | det |
| 45 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kick | obl |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 41 kick | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on in a quote | infinitive | Fionn not said here | Goll | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | would | Fionn | Fionn's stag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to stag=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lift | gerund | Fionn not said here | stag | a tussock | with a tough grip on the snout | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over tussock=Destination | ||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Fionn's stag = stag | bald Cona’n | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kick in a quote | shall | Fionn | Fionn's stag = stag | the neck | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient in neck=Location |
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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