Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 14
The man bent to the hound, but it snapped a piece out of his hand, and nearly bit his nose off as well.
Who acts: man · What happens: bend, snap, bite off · To what, where: man, piece, hand, nose
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snapped | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hound | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hound | det |
| 6 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snapped | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 snapped | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 snapped | nsubj |
| 10 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snapped | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 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 | 10 snapped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bit | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bit | cc |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 bit | advmod |
| 20 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 snapped | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nose | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bit | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 bit | compound:prt |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 20 bit | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle | the man not said here | to the hound | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hound=Location | ||||
| 2 | snap | past | the man | a piece | man's hand | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | bite off | past | man's nose | nearly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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