Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 71

“I will not eat a piece of its skin that is as small as the point of its smallest bone,” said the resolute and trembling bard.

Who acts: resolute, skin · What happens: not eat, be, say, tremble, point · To what, where: piece, bard, smallest bone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (resolute, skin), 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	_	5 eat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skin	nmod:poss
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 small	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	acl:relcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 point	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 small	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 bone	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bone	nmod:poss
20	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 bone	amod
21	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 point	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 resolute	det
26	resolute	resolute	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 trembling	cc
28	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 resolute	conj
29	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trembling	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat in a quote	future	the resolute = resolute	a piece of piece's skin		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	piece's skin		as the point of piece's smallest bone; small property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the resolute			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tremble	gerund	the resolute not said here	bard		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bard=Theme
5	point in a quote			piece's smallest bone		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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