Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 43

“Don’t move a hand or a foot until the dog chokes himself to death on the dead meat.”

Who acts: you, dog · What happens: not move, choke · To what, where: hand, man, dead meat

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 (you, dog), 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	_	4 move	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 foot	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 chokes	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chokes	nsubj
13	chokes	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 move	advcl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 chokes	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chokes	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 meat	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meat	det
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meat	amod
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chokes	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	a hand or a foot					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	choke in a quote	present	the dog	man		the dead meat		to death result	vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to death=Result

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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