Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 20

In body it was not large, but its head was of a great size, and the mouth that was shaped in that head was able to open like the lid of a pot.

Who acts: dog, head, mouth · What happens: not be, be, shape, open · To what, where: body, mouth, head

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 (dog, head, mouth), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 body	case
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 large	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 large	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 size	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 size	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 size	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 size	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 size	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 size	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 size	amod
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 able	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 able	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouth	det
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 able	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shaped	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shaped	aux:pass
22	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mouth	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shaped	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 able	cop
27	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 open	mark
29	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 able	xcomp
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 lid	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lid	det
32	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 open	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 pot	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pot	det
35	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lid	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	dog		body	large property	tree rules
2	is	past	dog's head			of a great size	tree rules
3	shape	past · passive		the mouth	that head		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	is	past	the mouth			able property	tree rules
5	open	to-infinitive	the mouth not said here			like the lid of a pot	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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