Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28
One could eat this kind of man,” she murmured, and she licked a lip that had whiskers growing inside as well as out.
Who acts: One, Iaran, lip, whiskers · What happens: eat, murmur, lick, have, grow · To what, where: kind, lip, whiskers · 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 (One, Iaran, lip, whiskers), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 kind | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 murmured | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 murmured | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 murmured | nsubj |
| 11 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 licked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 licked | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 licked | nsubj |
| 15 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 murmured | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lip | det |
| 17 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 licked | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lip | acl:relcl |
| 20 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 whiskers | acl |
| 22 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 21 growing | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 21 growing | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | could | One | this kind of man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other in a quote | past | Iaran | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lick in a quote | past | Iaran | a lip | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | a lip | whiskers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow in a quote | gerund | whiskers not said here | inside property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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