Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 36
The swing began with the chop, and it ended with the bit loose and the sheep giving its last kick.
Who acts: swing, sheep · What happens: begin, end, give, kick · To what, where: last kick
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 (swing, sheep), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swing | det |
| 2 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 chop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chop | det |
| 6 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ended | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ended | nsubj |
| 10 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loose | obl |
| 14 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ended | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 giving | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sheep | det |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 giving | nsubj |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ended | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kick | nmod:poss |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kick | amod |
| 21 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giving | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the swing | with the chop | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with chop=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | end | past | swing | loose property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the sheep | swing's last kick | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kick | swing | nom kick «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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