Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 1
“Has that dog stopped shivering yet?” he asked.
Who acts: Has, dog · What happens: stop, shiver, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Has, 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 | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Has | appos |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | shivering | shiver | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stopped | xcomp |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 shivering | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | past | Has | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | shiver in a quote | gerund | Has not said here | yet | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | dog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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