Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 31
“A dog it is,” growled the glum servant.
Who acts: amazement, dog · What happens: be, growl · To what, where: dog, glum servant
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 (amazement, dog), 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 | _ | 8 growled | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growled | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 8 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servant | det |
| 10 | glum | glum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 servant | amod |
| 11 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 growled | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 growled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | amazement | a dog not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | growl | past | a dog | the glum servant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic |
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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