Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 27
And he soundly cuffed that indelicate servant.
Who acts: master · What happens: cuff · To what, where: indelicate servant
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 (master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cuffed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cuffed | nsubj |
| 3 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 4 cuffed | advmod |
| 4 | cuffed | cuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 servant | mark |
| 6 | indelicate | indelicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 servant | amod |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuffed | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuff | past | master | indelicate servant | soundly property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=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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