Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 9

They had long scraggy necks that could turn all the way round like the neck of a hen.

Who acts: mouths, scraggy necks · What happens: have, turn · To what, where: scraggy necks, way

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 (mouths, scraggy necks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scraggy	advmod
4	scraggy	scraggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 necks	amod
5	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turn	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 necks	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obj
12	round	round	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 neck	det
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hen	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hen	det
18	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 neck	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	mouths = mouth	scraggy necks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
2	turn	could	scraggy necks	all way				like the neck of a hen; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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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