Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 30

“The cat has a sore tail,” said she, “by reason of sitting too close to a part of the hob that was hot.

Who acts: cat, reason, hob · What happens: have, say, sit, be · To what, where: sore tail · 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 (cat, reason, hob), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tail	det
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tail	amod
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reason	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 reason	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 reason	case
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 sitting	mark
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 reason	acl
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 close	advmod
19	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sitting	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 part	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 part	det
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 hob	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hob	det
25	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 part	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 hot	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hot	cop
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hob	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the cat	a sore tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	cat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	gerund	reason not said here		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the hob		hot property	tree rules

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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