Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 43

“The one,” Fionn queried, “that had its head wrapped in a blanket and was stuck in a bucket of water and was chained to a wall as well--the venomous Birgha?”

Who acts: one, that · What happens: query, have, wrap, be, chain · To what, where: head, blanket, bucket, venomous Birgha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, that), 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	_	7 queried	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 queried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	queried	query	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 queried	ccomp
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 head	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 blanket	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blanket	det
17	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrapped	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stuck	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stuck	cop
20	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 bucket	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bucket	det
23	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bucket	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 chained	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 chained	aux:pass
28	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 queried	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 wall	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wall	det
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chained	obl
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	28 chained	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 Birgha	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Birgha	det
36	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Birgha	amod
37	Birgha	Birgha	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 chained	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 queried	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 queried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	query	past	the one				tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	that	socket's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	wrap in a quote	participle		socket's head not said here	a blanket		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in blanket=Destination
4	is in a quote	past	that not said here		a bucket of water	stuck property	tree rules
5	chain in a quote	past · passive	the one not said here	the venomous Birgha		to a wall	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to wall=Co-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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