Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 21

“If you snap at my nose, or if you put as much as the start of a tooth into the beginning of a finger!” he growled.

Who acts: you, Fergus · What happens: snap, put, growl, start, begin · To what, where: nose, much, beginning, tooth, finger

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, 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	_	4 snap	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 snap	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 snap	nsubj
4	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 growled	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 nose	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nose	nmod:poss
7	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snap	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 put	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snap	conj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	obj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 start	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 start	det
17	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 much	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tooth	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tooth	det
20	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 start	nmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 beginning	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beginning	det
23	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 finger	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 finger	det
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beginning	nmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 growled	nsubj
30	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		my nose			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nose=Location
2	put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	much		into the beginning of a finger	as the start of a tooth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent much=Goal
3	growl	past	Fergus					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	start in a quote			a tooth				nom start «event transitive»: of=patient
5	begin in a quote			a finger				nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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