Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 44
“‘To-morrow,’ they said, ‘we will tear out your throat, and gnaw on your living haunch’.”
Who acts: thud, we · What happens: say, tear out, gnaw · To what, where: throat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thud, we), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 3 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 morrow | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 To | punct |
| 5 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 morrow | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tear | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 tear | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tear | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tear | aux |
| 14 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 tear | compound:prt |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 throat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tear | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gnaw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gnaw | cc |
| 20 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tear | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 haunch | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 haunch | nmod:poss |
| 23 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 haunch | amod |
| 24 | haunch | haunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gnaw | obl |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | thud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tear out in a quote | future | we | your throat | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location throat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gnaw in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | on your living haunch | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on haunch=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/7/44/