Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 31

A solemn-nosed, stern-eyed cow would amble and stamp in his wood to find a flyless shadow; or a strayed sheep would poke its gentle muzzle through leaves.

Who acts: nosed eyed cow, strayed sheep · What happens: nose, amble, stamp, find, stray, poke · To what, where: wood, flyless shadow, gentle muzzle

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 (nosed eyed cow, strayed sheep), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
2	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nosed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 solemn	punct
4	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cow	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nosed	punct
6	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyed	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 stern	punct
8	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cow	amod
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 amble	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 amble	aux
11	amble	amble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stamp	cc
13	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 amble	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wood	nmod:poss
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stamp	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stamp	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shadow	det
20	flyless	flyless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shadow	amod
21	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 poke	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 poke	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sheep	det
25	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sheep	amod
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poke	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 poke	aux
28	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 amble	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 muzzle	nmod:poss
30	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 muzzle	amod
31	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poke	obj
32	through	through	ADP	_	33 leaves	case
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 poke	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 amble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nose	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	amble	would	a nosed eyed cow				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stamp	infinitive	a nosed eyed cow not said here		existence's wood		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wood=Destination
4	find	to-infinitive	a nosed eyed cow not said here	a flyless shadow			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Topic
5	stray	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	poke	would	a strayed sheep	sheep's gentle muzzle		through leaves	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent muzzle=Instrument through leaf=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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