Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 31
The dog has a toothache, the horse has a pain in her stomach, and the hen has the pip.”
Who acts: dog, horse, hen · What happens: have · To what, where: toothache, pain, stomach, pip
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, horse, hen), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 toothache | det |
| 5 | toothache | toothache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pain | det |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stomach | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pain | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hen | det |
| 18 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pip | det |
| 21 | pip | pip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the dog | a toothache | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothache=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the horse | a pain | horse's stomach | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||
| 3 | have | present | the hen | the pip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pip=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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