Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 29

“I could smell one of them and it wrapped around a little tree thirty miles back,” said Cael, “and the other one was dishonouring a bush ten miles behind that.”

Who acts: Cael, tail, other one · What happens: smell, wrap, say, dishonour · To what, where: one, little tree, bush · 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 (Cael, tail, other one), 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	_	4 smell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 smell	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 smell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrapped	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrapped	nsubj
10	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrapped	obl
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 miles	nummod
16	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 back	obl:unmarked
17	back	back	ADV	_	10 wrapped	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dishonouring	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 dishonouring	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dishonouring	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 one	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dishonouring	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dishonouring	aux
29	dishonouring	dishonour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bush	det
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dishonouring	obj
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 miles	nummod
33	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dishonouring	obj
34	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 that	case
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 miles	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 dishonouring	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 dishonouring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell in a quote	could	Cael	one of riddles		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	wrap in a quote	past	tail		a little tree	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around tree=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Cael			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dishonour in a quote	past · progressive	the other one	a bush		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus bush=Experiencer mile=Result

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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