Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 24
He may have thought of his own door as the beginning and end of the world, whence all things went, and whither all things came.
Who acts: existence, things · What happens: think, go, come, begin · To what, where: world
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 (existence, things), 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 | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 door | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 beginning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beginning | det |
| 11 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 end | cc |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beginning | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beginning | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 went | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 things | det |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 24 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 came | advmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 things | det |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may · perfect | existence | as the beginning of the world and end | of existence's own door | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | all things | whence property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | all things | whither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | the world | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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