Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 67

“Hurry up with that tooth,” the man in front of him grum-bled, “for I want to knock out another one.”

Who acts: you, two · What happens: hurry up, bleed, want, knock out · To what, where: man, front, one · 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	_	2 Hurry	punct
2	Hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Hurry	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tooth	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tooth	det
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hurry	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hurry	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hurry	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hurry	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hurry	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 front	nmod
15	grum	grum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bled	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grum	punct
17	bled	bleed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Hurry	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 want	case
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Hurry	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 knock	mark
24	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 want	xcomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 knock	compound:prt
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knock	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hurry	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hurry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hurry up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the man	front of tooth	with that tooth	tree rules
2	bleed	participle					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	want in a quote	present	two				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	knock out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	two not said here	another one			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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