Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 66
“You can’t fight,” he mumbled, “with a loose shoe or a loose tooth.”
Who acts: You, two · What happens: not fight, mumble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, two), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fight | advmod |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 mumbled | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mumbled | nsubj |
| 9 | mumbled | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoe | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoe | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 shoe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shoe | det |
| 14 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shoe | amod |
| 15 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mumbled | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 tooth | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tooth | det |
| 18 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tooth | amod |
| 19 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoe | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tooth | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight in a quote | can | You | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mumble speech: other | past | two | with a loose shoe or a loose tooth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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