Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 36
But he was again astonished, for the dogs did not kill.
Who acts: Fionn, dogs · What happens: be, not kill
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 (Fionn, dogs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 astonished | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kill | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dogs | det |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 kill | advmod |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 astonished | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fionn | again | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not kill | past · do-support | the dogs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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