Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIX, sentence 44

He touched the dog too, and it became a little silky lapdog that could nestle in your palm.

Who acts: Mongan, dog, little silky lapdog · What happens: touch, become, nestle · To what, where: dog, little silky lapdog, palm

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 (Mongan, dog, little silky lapdog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 touched	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 became	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lapdog	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lapdog	amod
12	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lapdog	amod
13	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	xcomp
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 nestle	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 nestle	aux
16	nestle	nestle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lapdog	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 palm	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 palm	nmod:poss
19	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nestle	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	touch	past	Mongan	the dog		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme
2	become	past	dog	a little silky lapdog		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	nestle	could	a little silky lapdog		your palm	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palm=Location

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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