Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 35
“Beware of Delvcaem’s mother, Dog Head, daughter of the King of the Dog Heads.
Who acts: you · What happens: beware
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 2 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 4 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Delvcaem | case |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Beware | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Head | punct |
| 8 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Head | compound |
| 9 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daughter | punct |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Heads | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Heads | det |
| 17 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Heads | compound |
| 18 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware in a quote | imperative | you not said here | of Delvcaem's mother and daughter of the King of the Dog Heads | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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