Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 39

“I wonder at that,” Fergus growled, “for Fionn knows well that there is not a man in the world has less of a liking for dogs than I have.”

Who acts: messenger, Fergus, man · What happens: wonder, growl, know, be, have · To what, where: that, less · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (messenger, Fergus, man), 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	_	3 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	ccomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wonder	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
8	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 growled	nsubj
9	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Fionn	case
13	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 knows	obl
14	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 growled	conj
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 knows	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 is	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 has	advcl
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 man	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	nmod
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 knows	conj
26	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 has	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 liking	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 liking	det
29	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 less	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 dogs	case
31	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 liking	nmod
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 less	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 growled	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	the messenger = messenger		that		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	growl	past	Fergus				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	Fergus not said here			for Fionn; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	be in a quote	present	a man in the world not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have in a quote	present	a man in the world	less			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient
6	have in a quote	present	the messenger = messenger				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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