Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 21

“They do not want the other dogs to hear or to come on this chase,” he murmured, and he wondered what might be passing within those slender heads.

Who acts: bodies, other dogs, Fionn · What happens: not want, hear, come, murmur, wonder, pass · To what, where: other dogs, chase · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bodies, other dogs, 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 want	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 murmured	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dogs	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dogs	amod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 chase	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 chase	det
16	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 murmured	nsubj
20	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wondered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wondered	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wondered	nsubj
24	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 murmured	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 passing	obj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 passing	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 passing	aux
28	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 wondered	ccomp
29	within	within	ADP	_	32 heads	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 heads	det
31	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heads	amod
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 passing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want in a quote	present · do-support	bodies = body	the other dogs			tree rules
2	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the other dogs not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	come in a quote	to-infinitive	the other dogs not said here		this chase		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chase=Location
4	murmur speech: other	past	Fionn				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wonder speech: ask	past	Fionn				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	pass	might · progressive				within that slender heads	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Trajectory

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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