Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 29
“The great pork!” a man gritted.
What happens: grit · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 pork | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pork | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pork | amod |
| 4 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pork | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pork | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pork | conj |
| 9 | gritted | grit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pork | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grit | participle | a man not said here | 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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