Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 30

“The no-good!” sobbed another.

What happens: sob · To what, where: another

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	_	8 sobbed	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 no	det
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 good	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sobbed	parataxis
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
8	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sobbed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past		another					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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