Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 2

He ate the second half of the boar, and he tied the unpicked bones in the tail of his coat.

Who acts: Carl · What happens: eat, tie, unpick · To what, where: second half, unpicked bones, tail

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 (Carl), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 half	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 half	amod
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 ate	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boar	det
8	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 half	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tied	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tied	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tied	nsubj
12	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bones	det
14	unpicked	unpick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bones	amod
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tied	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tail	det
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tied	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 coat	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 coat	nmod:poss
21	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tail	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past	Carl	the second half of the boar		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
2	tie	past	Carl	the unpicked bones	the tail of Carl's coat	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	unpick	participle				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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