Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 28
“There is nothing to frighten sheep like a dog,” said Mananna’n, “and there is nothing to frighten these sheep like this dog.”
Who acts: nothing, Mananna’n · What happens: be, frighten, say · To what, where: sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (nothing, Mananna’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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 frighten | mark |
| 6 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frighten | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Mananna’n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 “ | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 is | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 “ | conj |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 is | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 frighten | mark |
| 22 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 nothing | acl |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 sheep | det |
| 24 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 frighten | obj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 dog | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 dog | det |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sheep | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frighten in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | sheep | like a dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sheep=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mananna’n | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | frighten in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | this sheep | like this dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sheep=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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