Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 13

“Take that dog up,” Fergus commanded, “and hug it and kiss it, and if I find a single shiver left in the beast I’ll break your head.”

Who acts: Fergus, man · What happens: take up, command, hug, kiss, find, leave · To what, where: dog, hand, single shiver, beast, head · 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 (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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 commanded	ccomp
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 Take	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 commanded	nsubj
9	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hug	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 hug	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hug	cc
13	hug	hug	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 commanded	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hug	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kiss	cc
16	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hug	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kiss	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 break	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 find	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
22	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 break	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shiver	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shiver	amod
25	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
26	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shiver	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 beast	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beast	det
29	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 left	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 break	nsubj
31	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 break	aux
32	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 commanded	ccomp
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 break	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take up in a quote	infinitive	Fergus not said here		that dog		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination
2	command	past	Fergus				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hug in a quote	infinitive	Fergus not said here	hand			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4	kiss in a quote	infinitive	Fergus not said here	hand			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
5	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the man = man	a single shiver			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shiver=Topic
6	leave in a quote	participle		a single shiver not said here		in the beast result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in beast=Result
7	break in a quote	future	the man = man	your head			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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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