Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 48
If your salmon tastes as nice as my thumb did,” he laughed, “it will taste very nice.”
Who acts: salmon, thumb, Fionn · What happens: taste, do, laugh
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 (salmon, thumb, Fionn), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 tastes | mark |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 salmon | nmod:poss |
| 3 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tastes | nsubj |
| 4 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughed | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 nice | case |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tastes | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nice | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laughed | nsubj |
| 14 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taste | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 taste | aux |
| 19 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 laughed | ccomp |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 nice | advmod |
| 21 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 taste | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste a condition, not said to happen | present | your salmon | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | my thumb | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | past | Fionn | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | taste | future | thumb | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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