Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 3
He shouted for joy when he saw the great salmon in his net.
Who acts: man · What happens: shout, see · To what, where: great salmon, 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 salmon | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 salmon | amod |
| 10 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 net | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 net | nmod:poss |
| 13 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | man | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | the great salmon | man's net | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salmon=Stimulus |
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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