Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 14

“I saw that I was hairy and tufty and bristled as a savage boar; that I was lean as a stripped bush; that I was greyer than a badger; withered and wrinkled like an empty sack; naked as a fish; wretched as a starving crow in winter; and on my fingers and toes there were great curving claws, so that I looked like nothing that was known, like nothing that was animal or divine.

Who acts: Finnian, that · What happens: see, be, bristle, strip, wither, wrinkle · To what, where: fingers, animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finnian, that), 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	_	3 saw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 hairy	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 hairy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hairy	cop
7	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tufty	cc
9	tufty	tufty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hairy	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bristled	cc
11	bristled	bristle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 hairy	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 boar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boar	det
14	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boar	amod
15	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bristled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lean	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 lean	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 lean	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lean	cop
20	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 bush	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bush	det
23	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bush	amod
24	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lean	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 greyer	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 greyer	nsubj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 greyer	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 greyer	cop
29	greyer	grey	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 lean	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 badger	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 badger	det
32	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 greyer	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 withered	punct
34	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wrinkled	cc
36	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 withered	conj
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 sack	case
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sack	det
39	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sack	amod
40	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wrinkled	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 naked	punct
42	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 fish	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 fish	det
45	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 naked	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 wretched	punct
47	wretched	wretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 saw	conj
48	as	as	ADP	_	51 crow	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 crow	det
50	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 crow	amod
51	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wretched	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 winter	case
53	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 crow	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 fingers	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 fingers	cc
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 fingers	case
57	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 fingers	nmod:poss
58	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 toes	cc
60	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 fingers	conj
61	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	62 were	expl
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 fingers	acl:relcl
63	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 claws	amod
64	curving	curve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	65 claws	amod
65	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 were	nsubj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 looked	punct
67	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	70 looked	mark
68	that	that	SCONJ	_	67 so	fixed
69	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 looked	nsubj
70	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 were	parataxis
71	like	like	ADP	_	72 nothing	case
72	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	70 looked	obl
73	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 known	nsubj:pass
74	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 known	aux:pass
75	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	72 nothing	acl:relcl
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 nothing	punct
77	like	like	ADP	_	78 nothing	case
78	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	70 looked	conj
79	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	81 animal	nsubj
80	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 animal	cop
81	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 nothing	appos
82	or	or	CCONJ	_	83 divine	cc
83	divine	divine	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 animal	conj
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	Finnian	my fingers and toes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	past	Finnian		hairy property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		Finnian not said here			tree rules
4	bristle in a quote	participle	Finnian not said here		as a savage boar	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
5	is in a quote	past	that		as a stripped bush; lean property	tree rules
6	strip in a quote	participle				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	past	that		than a badger; grey property	tree rules
8	wither in a quote	participle	Finnian not said here			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	wrinkle in a quote	participle	Finnian not said here		like a empty sack	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
10	wretch in a quote	participle	Finnian not said here		as a starving crow in winter	tree rules
11	starve in a quote	gerund				tree rules
12	curve in a quote	gerund				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
13	look in a quote	past	Finnian		like nothing	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
14	know in a quote	past · passive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
15	is a in a quote	past	that	animal or divine		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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