Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4

“Indeed,” he said, and the fingers of his right hand strangled and did to death the fingers of his left hand, “indeed, we have transgressed by order.”

Who acts: king, fingers, order · What happens: say, strangle, do, transgress · To what, where: we · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, fingers, order), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strangled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 strangled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fingers	det
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strangled	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 hand	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hand	amod
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fingers	nmod
15	strangled	strangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strangled	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fingers	det
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 death	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 hand	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fingers	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 transgressed	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 transgressed	punct
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	32 transgressed	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 indeed	punct
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 transgressed	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 transgressed	aux
32	transgressed	transgress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fingers	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 order	case
34	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 transgressed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king		indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	strangle	participle	the fingers of king's right hand			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	the fingers of king's right hand not said here		to death and the fingers of king's left hand	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	transgress in a quote	present · perfect · passive	order	we	indeed 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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