Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 30
Or, coming suddenly on him, the horse might stare, all a-cock with eyes and ears and nose, one long-drawn facial extension, ere he turned and bounded away with manes all over him and hoofs all under him and tails all round him.
Who acts: horse, one, ere, tails · What happens: come, stare, draw, extension, turn, bound away · To what, where: existence
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, one, ere, tails), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 coming | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Or | punct |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stare | advcl |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stare | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stare | aux |
| 11 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stare | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cock | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cock | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 a | punct |
| 16 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stare | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cock | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ears | cc |
| 20 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eyes | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nose | cc |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 extension | punct |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 extension | nsubj |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 extension | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 27 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 extension | amod |
| 28 | facial | facial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 extension | amod |
| 29 | extension | extension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cock | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ere | punct |
| 31 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 extension | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 bounded | cc |
| 35 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | conj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 bounded | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 manes | case |
| 38 | manes | manis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 bounded | obl |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 him | advmod |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hoofs | cc |
| 43 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 him | conj |
| 44 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 him | advmod |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 round | cc |
| 48 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 round | nsubj |
| 49 | all | all | ADV | _ | 50 round | advmod |
| 50 | round | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | conj |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 round | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the horse not said here | on existence; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | might | the horse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | extension | one | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | turn | past | ere | over existence; under existence | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over he=Source under he=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | bound away | past | ere not said here | with manes; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | round | present | tails | existence | all property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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