Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 3

And the dogs were as wild for the boy as Fionn was.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 wild	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wild	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 wild	case
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wild	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 Fionn	case
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boy	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wild	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dogs					for the boy as Fionn; wild 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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