Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7
He gave prizes to servants who disliked dogs, and when he heard that a man had drowned a litter of pups he used to visit that person and try to marry his daughter.
Who acts: man, servants · What happens: give, dislike, hear, drown, use, visit · To what, where: prizes, servants, dogs, litter, pups, person · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, servants), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 servants | case |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 disliked | nsubj |
| 7 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 servants | acl:relcl |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disliked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 drowned | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drowned | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 drowned | aux |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 litter | det |
| 20 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drowned | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pups | case |
| 22 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 litter | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 used | nsubj |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pups | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 visit | mark |
| 26 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 used | xcomp |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 person | det |
| 28 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 visit | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 try | cc |
| 30 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 visit | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 marry | mark |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 try | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marry | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man | prizes | servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to servant=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dislike | past | servants | dogs | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | man | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | drown | past · perfect | a man | a litter of pups | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | use | past | man | pups not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pup=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | visit | to-infinitive | man not said here | that person | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | try | infinitive | man not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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