Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 14
But every time he sent anything to the hag, mac an Da’v snatched it out of her lap and put it in his pocket.
Who acts: King, you, Da’v · What happens: send, mac, snatch, put · To what, where: anything, hag, whispering, lap, pocket
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, Da’v), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mac | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mac | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hag | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hag | det |
| 9 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 11 | mac | mac | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Da’v | det |
| 13 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | nsubj |
| 14 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mac | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 snatched | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 lap | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lap | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lap | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 mac | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pocket | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl | ||
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | anything | the hag | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme to hag=Destination | |||
| 2 | mac | imperative | you not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | snatch | past | a Da’v | whispering | hag's lap | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme out lap=Source | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | you not said here | whispering | King's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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