Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 46

She clasped a chain about the hound’s neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog.

Who acts: Uct, eyes · What happens: clasp, set off, repute, be · To what, where: chain, house, unfriendliest man, world

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uct, eyes), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clasped	nsubj
2	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clasped	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hound	det
7	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neck	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 hound	case
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clasped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clasped	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	westward	westward	ADV	_	13 set	advmod
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Fergus	case
20	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
21	Fionnliath	Fionnliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Fergus	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reputed	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 reputed	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reputed	aux:pass
25	reputed	repute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 house	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	30 man	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 man	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	unfriendliest	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reputed	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 dog	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 dog	det
36	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clasp	past	Uct	a chain		about the hound's neck	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme
2	set off	past	eyes = eye		the house of Fergus	westward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial_Location
3	repute	past · passive		the house of Fergus			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	is a	to-infinitive		the unfriendliest man	the world	to a dog	tree rules

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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