Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
“What a place you must hunt whiskers in?” he mumbled savagely.
Who acts: place · What happens: hunt in, mumble · To what, where: 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 (place), 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 | _ | 7 hunt | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 place | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunt | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hunt | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunt | aux |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mumbled | ccomp |
| 8 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hunt | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hunt | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunt | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hunt | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mumbled | nsubj |
| 13 | mumbled | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 13 mumbled | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt in in a quote | must | what place | whiskers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisker=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mumble speech: other | past | place | savagely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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