Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 33

He put the hound down at last.

Who acts: dog · What happens: put down · To what, where: hound, last

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 (dog), 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 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hound	det
4	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 put	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past	dog	the hound		last			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hound=Theme at last=Destination

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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