Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4

“Those wolves may return,” she said, “for their chief is crafty and sagacious, and it is certain, from the look I caught in his eye as he departed, that he would rather taste of me than cat any woman he has met.”

Who acts: wolves, lady, chief, curse, woman · What happens: return, say, be, catch, depart, taste · To what, where: look, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, lady, chief, curse), 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 return	punct
2	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 return	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 return	aux
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crafty	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 crafty	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 chief	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chief	nmod:poss
14	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 crafty	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 crafty	cop
16	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sagacious	cc
18	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crafty	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 certain	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 certain	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 certain	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 certain	cop
23	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 crafty	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 look	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 look	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 look	det
27	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 certain	conj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 caught	nsubj
29	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 look	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 eye	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eye	nmod:poss
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	obl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 departed	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 departed	nsubj
35	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 caught	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taste	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 taste	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 taste	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 taste	aux
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	41 taste	advmod
41	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 departed	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 taste	obl
44	than	than	ADP	_	45 cat	case
45	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taste	obl
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 woman	det
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 met	nsubj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 met	nsubj
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 met	aux
50	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 taste	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return in a quote	may	that wolves				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present				for wolves's chief; crafty property	tree rules
4	be in a quote						tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	chief			certain property	tree rules
6	catch in a quote	past	lady	the look not said here	curse's eye		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme
7	depart in a quote	past	curse				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	taste in a quote	would	curse			of lady; than cat	vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	meet in a quote	present · perfect	any woman				vn meet-36.3-1 «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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