Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 13

It hadn’t a tooth in its head except one, and it had the toothache in that tooth.

Who acts: dog · What happens: not have, have · To what, where: tooth, head, toothache

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 (dog), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tooth	det
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tooth	nmod
9	except	except	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 toothache	det
16	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 tooth	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 tooth	det
19	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	dog	a tooth		dog's head		except one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	have	past	dog	the toothache		that tooth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=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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