Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 28
“Stop,” roared Fergus, “stop that forever,” and he grew very red in the face, and stared truculently down along his nose.
Who acts: Fergus · What happens: stop, roar, grow, stare · To what, where: Fergus, that · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roared | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roared | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 stop | obj |
| 11 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 9 stop | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roared | conj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 red | advmod |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 face | det |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 red | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stared | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stared | cc |
| 24 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roared | conj |
| 25 | truculently | truculently | ADV | _ | 26 down | advmod |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 stared | advmod |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 nose | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 nose | nmod:poss |
| 29 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stared | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | roar | past | Fergus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | that | forever property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | Fergus | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stare | past | along Fergus's nose; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent along nose=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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