Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 11
“Do you mean--?” his master thundered, and he stretched his hand for a club.
Who acts: you, master · What happens: mean, thunder, stretch · To what, where: hand · 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, master), 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 mean | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thundered | ccomp |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thundered | nsubj |
| 10 | thundered | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stretched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stretched | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stretched | nsubj |
| 14 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thundered | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 club | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 club | det |
| 19 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thunder | past | man's master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stretch | past | master | man's hand | for a club | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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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