Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 66
"Who has dared to interfere with my fighting pet?" screamed Yellow Face.
Who acts: Yellow Face · What happens: dare, interfere, scream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yellow Face), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dared | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dared | aux |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 screamed | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 interfere | mark |
| 6 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dared | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 pet | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pet | compound |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interfere | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dared | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dared | punct |
| 13 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Face | amod |
| 15 | Face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 screamed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | present · perfect | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | interfere in a quote | to-infinitive | with my fighting pet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | Yellow Face | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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