Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 17
He had something wrapped in a fold of his cloak, and he unwrapped and produced this thing.
Who acts: Mannana’n · What happens: have, wrap, unwrap, produce · To what, where: something, fold, thing
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannana’n), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 something | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fold | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fold | det |
| 7 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cloak | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fold | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unwrapped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 unwrapped | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 unwrapped | nsubj |
| 14 | unwrapped | unwrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 produced | cc |
| 16 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unwrapped | conj |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 thing | det |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 produced | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Mannana’n = mannana'n | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a fold of Mannana’n's cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fold=Destination | |||||
| 3 | unwrap | past | Mannana’n = mannana'n | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | produce | past | Mannana’n = mannana'n not said here | this thing | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Result |
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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