Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 19

You shall hear the song of a lash as it curls forward and bites inward and drags backward.

Who acts: You, song, lash · What happens: hear, curl, bite, drag, sing · To what, where: song

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, song, lash), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lash	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lash	det
8	lash	lash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 curls	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 curls	nsubj
11	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	advcl
12	forward	forward	ADV	_	11 curls	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bites	cc
14	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 curls	conj
15	inward	inward	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bites	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drags	cc
17	drags	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 curls	conj
18	backward	backward	ADV	_	17 drags	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	shall	You	the song of a lash		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
2	curl	present	song		forward property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
3	bite	present	song not said here		inward property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	drag	present	song not said here		backward property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	sing		a lash			nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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