Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 26

He tucked and tightened the animal into his breast, and marched moodily up and down the room.

Who acts: Fergus · What happens: tuck, tighten, march · To what, where: animal, breast

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), 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 tucked	nsubj
2	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tightened	cc
4	tightened	tighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tucked	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tightened	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 breast	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breast	nmod:poss
9	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tightened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 marched	cc
12	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tucked	conj
13	moodily	moodily	ADV	_	14 up	advmod
14	up	up	ADV	_	12 marched	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 room	cc
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marched	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tuck	past	Fergus			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	tighten	past	Fergus not said here	the animal	Fergus's breast	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
3	march	past	Fergus not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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