Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 24
But the fish has but one piece from his nose to his tail.
Who acts: fish · What happens: have · To what, where: one piece, nose
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 (fish), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 has | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 piece | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 piece | nummod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 nose | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nose | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the fish | one piece | fish's nose to fish's tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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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