Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 10

“If you were to take the beast up in your arms and hug it and kiss it, the shivers would stop,” said the man.

Who acts: you, shivers, man · What happens: take up, hug, kiss, stop, say · To what, where: beast, arms · 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 (you, shivers, 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	_	6 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 take	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beast	det
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hug	cc
14	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hug	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kiss	cc
17	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kiss	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stop	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shivers	det
21	shivers	shiver	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stop	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stop	aux
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you	the beast	your arms	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beast=Value in arm=Location
2	hug in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	beast		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	kiss in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	beast		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4	stop in a quote	would	the shivers			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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