Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 31

Mac an Da’v said it was a great shame, and he kicked some of the servants, but they did not budge, and then he slipped out to the stables and saddled two mares.

Who acts: Mac, Da’v, snoring · What happens: say, be, kick, not budge, slip out, saddle · To what, where: great shame, some, two mares · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mac, Da’v, snoring), 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	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Da’v	det
3	Da’v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mac	appos
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shame	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shame	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shame	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shame	amod
9	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kicked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kicked	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kicked	nsubj
13	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 kicked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 servants	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 servants	det
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 some	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 budge	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 budge	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 budge	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 budge	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 budge	advmod
23	budge	budge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kicked	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slipped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 slipped	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 slipped	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 slipped	nsubj
28	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 slipped	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 stables	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stables	det
32	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slipped	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saddled	cc
34	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 slipped	conj
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 mares	nummod
36	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 saddled	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mac					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Da’v = da'v	a great shame				tree rules
3	kick	past	Mac	some				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	not budge	past · do-support	snoring					tree rules
5	slip out	past	Mac			then	to the stables	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	saddle	past	Mac not said here		two mares			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=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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