Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 19

Now if the sheep were venomous, this dog was more venomous still, for it was fearful to look at.

Who acts: sheep, dog, it · What happens: be, look

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 (sheep, dog, it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 venomous	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 venomous	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 venomous	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 venomous	cop
6	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 venomous	punct
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 venomous	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 venomous	cop
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 venomous	advmod
12	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 venomous	conj
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 venomous	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fearful	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 fearful	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fearful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fearful	cop
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 venomous	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 look	mark
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fearful	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	20 look	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 venomous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sheep	now	venomous property	tree rules
2	is	past	this dog	still	venomous property	tree rules
3	is	past	it		fearful property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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