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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | compound |
| 2 | og | og | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | compound |
| 3 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mac | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Strokes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Strokes | det |
| 7 | Hard | Hard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Strokes | compound |
| 8 | Strokes | Stroke | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Morna | nmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 biting | mark |
| 11 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fell | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 biting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cona’n | punct |
| 15 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 grumbled | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Morna | det |
| 17 | Swearer | Swearer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Morna | compound |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Garra | cc |
| 19 | Garra | Garra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Swearer | conj |
| 20 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Morna | compound |
| 21 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Cona’n | appos |
| 22 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 23 | irritably | irritably | ADV | _ | 22 grumbled | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 grumbled | obl |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 each | fixed |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 looked | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 neighbours | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 looked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Caelte | punct |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 Caelte | advmod |
| 33 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 son | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 son | det |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Caelte | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Rona’n | case |
| 38 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 son | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Caelte | punct |
| 40 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 grumbled | conj |
| 41 | down | down | ADV | _ | 40 looked | advmod |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 lap | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 lap | nmod:poss |
| 44 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 lap | amod |
| 45 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 looked | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 sipped | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 sipped | cc |
| 48 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 sipped | nsubj |
| 49 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Goll | flat |
| 50 | sipped | sip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 wine | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 wine | nmod:poss |
| 53 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sipped | obl |
| 54 | without | without | ADP | _ | 56 twinkle | case |
| 55 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 56 twinkle | det |
| 56 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sipped | obl |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 eye | case |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 eye | nmod:poss |
| 59 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 twinkle | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Art og mac | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bite | gerund | Art og mac not said here | mac's fingers | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | Cona’n | each | irritably property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | |||
| 4 | look down | past | Caelte | into mac's own lap; at fingers's neighbours; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at neighbour=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sip | past | Goll | without any twinkle in mac's eye; at mac's wine | vn 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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