Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 6

“For the inside of my mouth,” said the Carl, “for the recesses and crannies and deep-down profundities of my stomach.

Who acts: Carl · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 inside	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 inside	det
4	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inside	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 inside	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 inside	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Carl	det
12	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 “	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 recesses	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 recesses	det
17	recesses	recess	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 “	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crannies	cc
19	crannies	cranny	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 recesses	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 profundities	cc
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 down	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 deep	punct
23	down	down	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 profundities	amod
24	profundities	profundity	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 recesses	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 stomach	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stomach	nmod:poss
27	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 profundities	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Carl					for the inside of my mouth	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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