Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 16
It took a long time to walk round them, and you could not see their tops.
Who acts: It, you · What happens: take, walk, not see · To what, where: tops
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walk | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tops | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | round side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | not see | could | you | side's tops | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus |
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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