Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 40

“A little bit only, a small bit about twice the size of my head.”

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bit	amod
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 bit	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bit	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bit	amod
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	appos
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 twice	advmod
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 bit	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twice	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 size	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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