Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 17
People who cut your hair or told your fortune or gave you a hot bath in a pot.
Who acts: People · What happens: cut, tell, give · To what, where: hair, fortune, hot bath, you, pot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cut | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bath | amod |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pot | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | People | your hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | People not said here | your fortune | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | People not said here | a hot bath | you | a pot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bath=Theme |
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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