Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 12
She had a tall skinny dog behind her called Brotar.
Who acts: Hag · What happens: have, call · To what, where: tall skinny dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hag), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 5 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 called | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 called | nmod:poss |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dog | acl |
| 10 | Brotar | Brotar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hag | a tall skinny dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a tall skinny dog not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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