Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29
Perhaps a horse would stray into the thick screen about his home, and would look as solemnly on Fionn as Fionn did on it.
Who acts: horse, Fionn · What happens: stray, look, do · To what, where: thick screen
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 (horse, Fionn), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 stray | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stray | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stray | aux |
| 5 | stray | stray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 screen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 screen | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 screen | amod |
| 9 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stray | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 screen | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stray | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 solemnly | advmod |
| 18 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Fionn | case |
| 20 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stray | would | a horse | the thick screen about existence's home | perhaps property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into screen=Destination | |||
| 2 | look | would | a horse not said here | on Fionn; solemnly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on fionn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Fionn | on horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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