Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 8
“And then, far away in the sea, I remembered Ulster, and there came on me an instant, uncontrollable anguish to be there.
Who acts: I · What happens: remember, come, be · To what, where: Ulster, instant
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 12 remembered | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 away | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 away | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 remembered | nsubj |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remembered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 came | expl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remembered | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 instant | det |
| 21 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 anguish | punct |
| 23 | uncontrollable | uncontrollable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anguish | amod |
| 24 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 instant | appos |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 there | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 there | cop |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 anguish | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | past | I | Ulster | away property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ulster=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | I not said here | a instant | there | on me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | there property | tree rules |
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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