Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 18

“Its legs will drop off,” said Fergus.

Who acts: legs, Fergus · What happens: drop off, say · 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 (legs, Fergus), 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	_	5 drop	punct
2	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drop	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drop	aux
5	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 drop	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off in a quote	future	creature's legs						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fergus						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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