Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 35
The hag took the cat off her shoulder and gave it to mac an Da’v.
Who acts: hag · What happens: take, give, mac · To what, where: cat, shoulder, wish, Da’v
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hag | det |
| 2 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 mac | mark |
| 13 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Da’v | det |
| 15 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mac | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the hag | the cat | Hag's shoulder | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme off shoulder=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the hag not said here | wish | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mac | to-infinitive | the hag not said here | a Da’v | 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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