Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 1
“THE fisherman of Cairill, the King of Ulster, took me in his net.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: take · To what, where: me, net
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 took | punct |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Cairill | case |
| 5 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fisherman | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Cairill | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ulster | case |
| 10 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fisherman | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 took | iobj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 net | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 net | nmod:poss |
| 16 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | the fisherman of Cairill | me | fisherman's net | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in net=Location |
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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