Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 18
“Ah!” said Caevo’g, and her jaw crunched upwards and stuck outwards, as was usual with her when she was satisfied.
Who acts: Caevo’g, jaw · What happens: say, crunch, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caevo’g, jaw), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Caevo’g | Caevo'g | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crunched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crunched | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crunched | nsubj |
| 11 | crunched | crunch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 11 crunched | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stuck | cc |
| 14 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crunched | conj |
| 15 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 11 crunched | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 usual | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 usual | case |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 usual | cop |
| 19 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crunched | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 usual | obl |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 satisfied | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 satisfied | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 satisfied | cop |
| 25 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 usual | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Caevo’g | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | crunch | participle | Iarnach's jaw | outwards, upwards property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | with jaw; usual property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | jaw | satisfied property | 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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