Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 45
He trotted to his master, and Mananna’n took him up and wrapped him in his cloak.
Who acts: man, Mananna’n · What happens: trot, take up, wrap · To what, where: master, man, cloak
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 (man, 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 trotted | nsubj |
| 2 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 master | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trotted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | Mananna’n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trotted | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wrapped | cc |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trotted | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wrapped | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cloak | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | past | man | man's master | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to master=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | Mananna’n | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wrap | past | man not said here | man | man's cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cloak=Destination |
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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