Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 43
Or has that devil made you really dumb, when he struck his nasty hand on your jaw?"
Who acts: devil · What happens: have, make, strike · To what, where: you, nasty hand
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 2 has | cc |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 dumb | advmod |
| 8 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 struck | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hand | amod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 jaw | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 18 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | that devil | you | dumb property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Product | |||
| 3 | strike | past | devil | devil's nasty hand | on your jaw | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Instrument on jaw=Patient |
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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