Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 36
He may have mourned for the spider in bad luck who caught that fly.
Who acts: blackbird, bad luck · What happens: mourn, catch · To what, where: bad luck, fly
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 (blackbird, bad luck), 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 mourned | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mourned | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mourned | aux |
| 4 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 spider | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spider | det |
| 7 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mourned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 luck | case |
| 9 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 luck | amod |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mourned | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 luck | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fly | det |
| 14 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | may · perfect | blackbird | bad luck | for the spider | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for spider=Attribute | |||
| 2 | catch | past | bad luck | that fly | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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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