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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 14

Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona’n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona’n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye.

Who acts: Art og mac, Cona’n, Caelte, Goll · What happens: fall, bite, grumble, look down, sip · To what, where: fingers, each

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art og mac, Cona’n, Caelte, Goll), 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

compoundcompoundnsubjapposcasedetcompoundnmodmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctnsubjdetcompoundccconjcompoundapposconjadvmodcaseoblfixedcccasenmod:possoblpunctadvmodnsubjpunctdetapposcasenmodpunctconjadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccnsubjflatconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootArtPROPNogNOUNmacNOUNMornaPROPNofADPtheDETHardPROPNStrokesPROPNfellVERBtoSCONJbitingVERBhisPRONfingersNOUN,PUNCTCona’nPROPNtheDETSwearerPROPNandCCONJGarraPROPNmacPROPNMornaPROPNgrumbledVERBirritablyADVtoADPeachDETotherADJandCCONJatADPtheirPRONneighboursNOUN,PUNCTevenADVCaeltePROPN,PUNCTtheDETsonNOUNofADPRona’nPROPN,PUNCTlookedVERBdownADVintoADPhisPRONownADJlapNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJGollPROPNMorPROPNsippedVERBatADPhisPRONwineNOUNwithoutADPanyDETtwinkleNOUNinADPhisPRONeyeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ArtArtPROPNNumber=Sing3 maccompound
2ogogNOUNNumber=Sing3 maccompound
3macmacNOUNNumber=Sing9 fellnsubj
4MornaMornaPROPNNumber=Sing3 macappos
5ofofADP_8 Strokescase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Strokesdet
7HardHardPROPNNumber=Sing8 Strokescompound
8StrokesStrokePROPNNumber=Plur4 Mornanmod
9fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10totoSCONJ_11 bitingmark
11bitingbiteVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 felladvcl
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 fingersnmod:poss
13fingersfingerNOUNNumber=Plur11 bitingobj
14,,PUNCT_15 Cona’npunct
15Cona’nCona'nPROPNNumber=Sing22 grumblednsubj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Mornadet
17SwearerSwearerPROPNNumber=Sing21 Mornacompound
18andandCCONJ_19 Garracc
19GarraGarraPROPNNumber=Sing17 Swearerconj
20macMacPROPNNumber=Sing21 Mornacompound
21MornaMornaPROPNNumber=Sing15 Cona’nappos
22grumbledgrumbleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 fellconj
23irritablyirritablyADV_22 grumbledadvmod
24totoADP_25 eachcase
25eacheachDETExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp22 grumbledobl
26otherotherADJDegree=Pos25 eachfixed
27andandCCONJ_40 lookedcc
28atatADP_30 neighbourscase
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 neighboursnmod:poss
30neighboursneighbourNOUNNumber=Plur40 lookedobl
31,,PUNCT_33 Caeltepunct
32evenevenADV_33 Caelteadvmod
33CaelteCaeltePROPNNumber=Sing40 lookednsubj
34,,PUNCT_36 sonpunct
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 sondet
36sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing33 Caelteappos
37ofofADP_38 Rona’ncase
38Rona’nRona'nPROPNNumber=Sing36 sonnmod
39,,PUNCT_33 Caeltepunct
40lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 grumbledconj
41downdownADV_40 lookedadvmod
42intointoADP_45 lapcase
43hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 lapnmod:poss
44ownownADJDegree=Pos45 lapamod
45laplapNOUNNumber=Sing40 lookedobl
46,,PUNCT_50 sippedpunct
47andandCCONJ_50 sippedcc
48GollGollPROPNNumber=Sing50 sippednsubj
49MorMorPROPNNumber=Sing48 Gollflat
50sippedsipVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 fellconj
51atatADP_53 winecase
52hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs53 winenmod:poss
53winewineNOUNNumber=Sing50 sippedobl
54withoutwithoutADP_56 twinklecase
55anyanyDETPronType=Ind56 twinkledet
56twinkletwinkleNOUNNumber=Sing50 sippedobl
57ininADP_59 eyecase
58hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs59 eyenmod:poss
59eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing56 twinklenmod
60..PUNCT_9 fellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fallpastArt og macvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2bitegerundArt og mac not said heremac's fingersvn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
3grumble speech: otherpastCona’neachirritably propertyvn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
4look downpastCaelteinto mac's own lap; at fingers's neighbours; down propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at neighbour=Theme
5sippastGollwithout any twinkle in mac's eye; at mac's winevn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wine=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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