Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 38
“By my hand,” he cried next day, “I like that dog.”
Who acts: dog · What happens: cry, like · To what, where: dog · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | dog | day | by my hand | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hand=Location | |||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | dog | that dog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dog=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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