Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“You are done for, indeed,” said Cuillen, and she smiled a hairy and twisty and fangy smile that almost finished Cona’n.
Who acts: Cuillen · What happens: do, say, smile, finish · To what, where: You, hairy smile · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuillen), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 done | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Cuillen | Cuillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smiled | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 smiled | nsubj |
| 15 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 smile | det |
| 17 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 smile | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 twisty | cc |
| 19 | twisty | twisty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hairy | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fangy | cc |
| 21 | fangy | fangy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hairy | conj |
| 22 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smiled | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 finished | obj |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 25 finished | advmod |
| 25 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 smile | acl:relcl |
| 26 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 finished | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · passive | You | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cuillen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | smile | past | Cuillen | a hairy smile | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic | ||||
| 4 | finish | past | a hairy smile | almost 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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