Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 8

I could be invisible and patient as a wild cat crouching among leaves; I could smell danger in my sleep and leap at it with wakeful claws; I could bark and growl and clash with my teeth and tear with them.”

Who acts: I, wild cat, my · What happens: be, crouch, smell, leap, bark, growl · To what, where: leaves, danger, sleep

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 (I, wild cat, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 invisible	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 invisible	cop
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 patient	cc
6	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 invisible	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patient	obl
11	crouching	crouch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 cat	acl
12	among	among	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crouching	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 smell	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 smell	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 smell	aux
17	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 invisible	parataxis
18	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smell	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sleep	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sleep	nmod:poss
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smell	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leap	cc
23	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 smell	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 leap	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 claws	case
27	wakeful	wakeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 claws	amod
28	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leap	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bark	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 bark	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bark	aux
32	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 invisible	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 growl	cc
34	growl	growl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bark	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 clash	cc
36	clash	clash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bark	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 teeth	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 teeth	nmod:poss
39	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 clash	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tear	cc
41	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bark	conj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tear	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invisible	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 invisible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could	I			invisible property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here			as a wild cat	tree rules
3	crouch	gerund	a wild cat not said here		leaves		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location
4	smell	could	I	danger	my sleep		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Theme in sleep=Location
5	leap	infinitive	I not said here		sleep	with wakeful claws	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory
6	bark	could	I				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	growl	infinitive	I not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	clash	infinitive	I not said here			with my teeth	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tooth=Co-Agent
9	tear	infinitive	I not said here			with teeth = tooth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with they=Instrument
10	sleep		my				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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