Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15
The youngster was brought to the woods of Slieve Bloom and was nursed there in secret.
What happens: bring, nurse · To what, where: youngster, woods, secret
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngster | det |
| 2 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 woods | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woods | det |
| 7 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bloom | case |
| 9 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bloom | compound |
| 10 | Bloom | Bloom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 woods | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nursed | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nursed | aux:pass |
| 13 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 nursed | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 secret | case |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nursed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the youngster | the woods of Slieve Bloom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to wood=Destination | ||||
| 2 | nurse | past · passive | secret; there | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» |
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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