Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3
This was the one who picked him up when he fell, and that was the one who patted the bruise.
Who acts: This, one, Fionn, that · What happens: be, pick up, fall, pat · To what, where: one, Fionn, bruise
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 (This, one, Fionn, that), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 picked | nsubj |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 picked | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 fell | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 picked | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 one | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 patted | nsubj |
| 19 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bruise | det |
| 21 | bruise | bruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 patted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | the one | Fionn | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Fionn | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pat | past | the one | the bruise | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruise=Experiencer |
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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