Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 7
They lay in wait at the waterfalls up which I leaped like a silver flash.
Who acts: men · What happens: lay up, leap · To what, where: wait
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wait | case |
| 4 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 waterfalls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waterfalls | det |
| 7 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lay | compound:prt |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 leaped | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leaped | nsubj |
| 11 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 flash | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flash | det |
| 14 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flash | amod |
| 15 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay up | present | men = man | wait | at the waterfalls | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wait=Destination | |||
| 2 | leap | past | like a silver flash | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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