Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 26
“They took her by the throat--” the shivering servant whispered.
Who acts: hounds, shivering servant · What happens: take, whisper · To what, where: Fionn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, shivering servant), 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 | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 throat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throat | det |
| 7 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 11 | shivering | shivering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 servant | amod |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | hounds = hound | Fionn | by the throat | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the shivering servant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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