Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “It is not nice of you to laugh at us,” said Fiachna Finn, sentence 55
He gave the Black Hag seven castles with their territories, and he gave her one hundred of every sort of cattle that he had captured.
Who acts: Fiachna · What happens: give, capture, sort · To what, where: seven castles, Black Hag, one hundred, Hag, cattle
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 (Fiachna), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hag | det |
| 4 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hag | compound |
| 5 | Hag | Hag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 castles | nummod |
| 7 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 territories | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 territories | nmod:poss |
| 10 | territories | territory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 gave | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sort | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sort | det |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hundred | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cattle | case |
| 22 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sort | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 captured | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 captured | aux |
| 26 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cattle | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Fiachna | seven castles | the Black Hag | with castles's territories | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hag=Recipient castle=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | past | Fiachna | one hundred of every sort of cattle | Hag | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | capture | past · perfect · passive | cattle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sort | cattle | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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