Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 35
When he got his grip he swung round on it as if it was a hinge.
Who acts: Mananna’n, grip · What happens: get, swing, be, grip · To what, where: grip
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, grip), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swung | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swung | nsubj |
| 7 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 swung | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swung | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 hinge | case |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hinge | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hinge | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hinge | det |
| 16 | hinge | hinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mananna’n = mananna'n | Mananna’n's grip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grip=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swing | past | Mananna’n = mananna'n | grip | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | grip | as a hinge | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grip | Mananna’n = mananna'n | nom grip «act 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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