Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 23
The stag has legs to be tucked away for sleep, and untucked for movement; and the bird has wings that must be folded and pecked and cared for.
Who acts: stag, legs, bird · What happens: have, tuck away, untuck, fold, peck, care · To what, where: legs, wings
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, legs, bird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tucked | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tucked | aux:pass |
| 7 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 tucked | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tucked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 untucked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 untucked | cc |
| 13 | untucked | untuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tucked | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 movement | case |
| 15 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 untucked | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 has | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 folded | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 folded | aux:pass |
| 25 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wings | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pecked | cc |
| 27 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 folded | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cared | cc |
| 29 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 folded | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 cared | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the stag | legs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tuck away | to-infinitive · passive | legs not said here | for sleep; away property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination» | ||||
| 3 | untuck | participle | legs not said here | for movement | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the bird | wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fold | must · passive | wings | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | peck | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | care | participle | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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