Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 34

He dealt with the sheep in this way, a jump and a chop for each, and he never missed his jump and he never missed his chop.

Who acts: Mananna’n · What happens: deal, not miss, jump, chop · To what, where: way, jump, chop

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dealt	nsubj
2	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dealt	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dealt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jump	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jump	det
11	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chop	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chop	det
14	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jump	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 chop	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 missed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 missed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 missed	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 missed	advmod
21	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dealt	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 jump	nmod:poss
23	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 missed	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 missed	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 missed	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 missed	advmod
27	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 missed	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 chop	nmod:poss
29	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 missed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dealt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	deal	past	Mananna’n = mananna'n		this way a jump and a chop for each	with the sheep	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sheep=Theme
2	not miss	past	Mananna’n = mananna'n	Mananna’n's jump			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jump=Stimulus
3	not miss	past	Mananna’n = mananna'n	Mananna’n's chop			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chop=Stimulus
4	jump		Mananna’n = mananna'n				nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=agent
5	chop		Mananna’n = mananna'n				nom chop «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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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