Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19

They saw the food they put into his little frame reproduce itself length-ways and sideways in tough inches, and in springs and energies that crawled at first, and then toddled, and then ran.

Who acts: eyes, food, springs · What happens: see, put, reproduce, crawl, toddle, run · To what, where: little frame, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (eyes, food, springs), 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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 frame	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 frame	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frame	amod
10	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	xcomp
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 reproduce	obj
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ways	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 length	punct
15	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reproduce	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sideways	cc
17	sideways	sideway	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ways	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 inches	case
19	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 inches	amod
20	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sideways	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 springs	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 springs	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 springs	case
24	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 energies	cc
26	energies	energy	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 springs	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 crawled	nsubj
28	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 springs	acl:relcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 first	case
30	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 crawled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 toddled	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 toddled	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 toddled	advmod
34	toddled	toddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 crawled	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ran	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ran	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 ran	advmod
38	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 toddled	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	eyes = eye			spring		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	put	past	the food		life's little frame			tree rules
3	reproduce	infinitive	the food not said here	food			length ways and sideways in tough inches obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
4	crawl	past	springs and energies					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory
5	toddle	past				then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	past				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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