Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 18

Then the attendant gave a little squeal, and she bit him on each ear and kissed his neck and wept down into his back, and said that it wasn’t true and that it was.

Who acts: attendant, girl, neck · What happens: give, bite, kiss, weep down, say, not be · To what, where: little squeal, Da’v, ear, neck, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendant, girl, neck), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 attendant	det
3	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 squeal	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squeal	amod
7	squeal	squeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bit	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bit	nsubj
11	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bit	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ear	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 ear	det
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kissed	cc
17	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kissed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wept	cc
21	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 wept	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 back	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wept	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 true	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 true	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 true	cop
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 true	advmod
33	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 said	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 was	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 true	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the attendant	a little squeal		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeal=Theme
2	bite	past	girl	Da’v = da'v	each ear			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient on ear=Location
3	kiss	past	the attendant not said here	Da’v's neck				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Co-Agent
4	weep down	past	the attendant not said here		Da’v's back		down property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into back=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	the attendant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	neck				true property	tree rules
7	be	past	neck					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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