Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 22
He picked up the dog, but it did not snap, it only trembled.
Who acts: Fergus, much · What happens: pick up, not snap, tremble · To what, where: dog
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, much), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 snap | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 snap | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 snap | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 snap | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 snap | advmod |
| 11 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 picked | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trembled | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trembled | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 trembled | advmod |
| 15 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Fergus | the dog | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not snap | past · do-support | much | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tremble | past | much | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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