Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 4
The dog was brought, and he examined it with a jaundiced and bitter eye.
Who acts: dog · What happens: bring, examine, jaundice · To what, where: dog, beast
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 examined | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 examined | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 examined | nsubj |
| 8 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 examined | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 eye | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eye | det |
| 12 | jaundiced | jaundice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eye | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bitter | cc |
| 14 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jaundiced | conj |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 examined | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the dog | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | examine | past | dog | beast | with a jaundiced eye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | jaundice | participle | tree rules |
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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