Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 47
That burned my thumb, so I popped it in my mouth to heal the smart.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: burn, pop, heal · To what, where: thumb, mouth, smart
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 burned | nsubj |
| 2 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 4 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burned | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 popped | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 popped | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 popped | nsubj |
| 8 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burned | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 popped | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 popped | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 heal | mark |
| 14 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 popped | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smart | det |
| 16 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heal | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | That | my thumb | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thumb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pop | past | I | thumb | my mouth | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | heal | to-infinitive | I not said here | the smart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent smart=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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