Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 13
Not a claw did the big bear flash, not a tooth did he show, as he ran whimpering like a baby, or as he stood with my nose rammed against his mouth, snarling up into his nostrils.
Who acts: claw · What happens: not do, show, run, whimper, stand, ram · To what, where: big bear flash, nose, mouth, nostrils · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claw), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 claw | det |
| 3 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flash | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flash | amod |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flash | compound |
| 8 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tooth | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tooth | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tooth | det |
| 12 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flash | conj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 ran | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | parataxis |
| 20 | whimpering | whimper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 ran | advcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 baby | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 baby | det |
| 23 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whimpering | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 stood | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 nose | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nose | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 32 | rammed | ram | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 nose | acl |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 mouth | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rammed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 snarling | punct |
| 37 | snarling | snarl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 stood | advcl |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 snarling | compound:prt |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 nostrils | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 41 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 snarling | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | a claw | the big bear flash and a tooth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | past · do-support | claw | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run | past | claw | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | whimper | gerund | claw not said here | like a baby | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | claw | with my nose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | ram | participle | my nose not said here | claw's mouth | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against mouth=Location | ||||
| 7 | snarl up | gerund | claw not said here | claw's nostrils | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into nostril=Recipient |
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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