Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 48
But he swung himself out of the tree all the same, for he did not wish to seem frightened before Mananna’n.
Who acts: Mananna’n · What happens: swing, not wish, seem, frighten · To what, where: Mananna’n, tree
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 swung | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swung | nsubj |
| 3 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 swung | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swung | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 same | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swung | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swung | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 seem | mark |
| 19 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 Mananna’n | case |
| 22 | Mananna’n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 frightened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Mananna’n = mananna'n | Mananna’n = mananna'n | the tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out tree=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | Mananna’n = mananna'n | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mananna’n = mananna'n not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | frighten not said to happen | participle | Mananna’n = mananna'n not said here | before Mananna’n | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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