Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 9

“Here, my heart, is a meaty bone,” said he, “for you fasted all night, poor friend, and if you pick a bit off the bone your stomach will get a rest.”

Who acts: heart, meaty bone, Cael, you, stomach · What happens: be, say, fast, pick, get · To what, where: meaty bone, bit, rest · 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 (heart, meaty bone, Cael, you), 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 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bone	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heart	nmod:poss
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heart	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bone	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bone	det
9	meaty	meaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bone	amod
10	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bone	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 bone	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fasted	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fasted	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 fasted	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 fasted	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 fasted	nsubj
19	fasted	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fasted	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 friend	punct
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 friend	amod
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 night	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 get	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 get	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 pick	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 pick	nsubj
29	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 get	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pick	obj
32	off	off	ADP	_	34 bone	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bone	det
34	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obl
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 stomach	nmod:poss
36	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 get	aux
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fasted	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 rest	det
40	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	my heart	a meaty bone	here			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a meaty bone					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fast in a quote	past	Cael			night		tree rules
4	pick a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a bit				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
5	get in a quote	future	your stomach	a rest			off the bone	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rest=Stimulus

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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