Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 8
“Have you heard of Fergus Fionnliath,” she said again, “the man who does not like dogs?”
Who acts: you, Fergus, man · What happens: hear, say, not like · To what, where: dogs · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Fergus | case |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | Fionnliath | Fionnliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergus | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 like | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | you | of Fergus | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fergus=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Fergus | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | the man | dogs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme |
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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