--- title: “Take that dog up,” Fergus commanded, “and hug it and kiss it, and i… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Take that dog up,” Fergus commanded, “and hug it and kiss it, and if I find a single shiver left in the beast I’ll break your head.” Who acts: Fergus, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/31/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter IV. On the following day Fergu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/31/) / 13 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 13 “Take that dog up,” Fergus commanded, “and hug it and kiss it, and if I find a single shiver left in the beast I’ll break your head.” **Who acts:** Fergus, man · **What happens:** take up, command, hug, kiss, find, leave · **To what, where:** dog, hand, single shiver, beast, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, man), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:31:13 # text = “Take that dog up,” Fergus commanded, “and hug it and kiss it, and if I find a single shiver left in the beast I’ll break your head.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hug hug VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 shiver shiver NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fergus *not said here* | | that dog | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | | 2 | **command** | past | Fergus | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **hug** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fergus *not said here* | hand | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 4 | **kiss** *in a quote* | infinitive | Fergus *not said here* | hand | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 5 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the man *= man* | a single shiver | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shiver=Topic | | 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle | | a single shiver *not said here* | | | | in the beast *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in beast=Result | | 7 | **break** *in a quote* | future | the man *= man* | your head | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/31/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/31/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. 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