Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30
“It is bad luck to be separated from the tails of your own coat,” the Carl grumbled.
Who acts: tail · What happens: be, separate, grumble · To what, where: bad luck · 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 (tail), 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 luck | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 luck | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 luck | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grumbled | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 separated | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 separated | aux:pass |
| 8 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 luck | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tails | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tails | det |
| 11 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 separated | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coat | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coat | amod |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tails | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 luck | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 luck | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Carl | det |
| 19 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grumbled | nsubj |
| 20 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 grumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tail | bad luck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | separate in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | from the tails of your own coat | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from tail=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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