Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 48

“Dog!” the king stammered, starting up.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: stammer, start up

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 (Dog), 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	_	2 Dog	punct
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stammered	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dog	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stammered	nsubj
7	stammered	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 starting	punct
9	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stammered	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 starting	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stammered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stammer speech: other	past	Dog						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start up	gerund	Dog not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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