Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 7

“How do you cure the shivers?” his master demanded, for he thought that if the animal’s legs dropped off Fionn would not be satisfied.

Who acts: you, master, Fionn · What happens: cure, demand, think, drop off, not be · To what, where: shivers, legs · 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 (you, master, Fionn), 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	_	5 cure	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cure	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cure	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cure	nsubj
5	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 demanded	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shivers	det
7	shivers	shiver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cure	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cure	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cure	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 demanded	nsubj
12	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 demanded	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 dropped	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 dropped	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 legs	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 animal	case
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dropped	nsubj:pass
23	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 thought	ccomp
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 dropped	compound:prt
25	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 satisfied	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 satisfied	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 satisfied	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 satisfied	cop
29	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dropped	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cure in a quote	present · do-support	you	the shivers		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer shiver=Source
2	demand speech: request	past	dog's master			vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	think speech: other	past	master			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	drop off a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		the animal's legs		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	not is	would	Fionn		satisfied property	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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