Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 15

“That dog doesn’t like me,” said the man.

Who acts: dog, man · What happens: not like, say · To what, where: man · 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 (dog, 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 like	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	present · do-support	that dog	the man = man					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
2	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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