Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 8
He slashed into them with a stick and brought them low.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: slash, bring · To what, where: nettles
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 (Fionn), 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 | 2 slashed | nsubj |
| 2 | slashed | slash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slashed | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stick | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stick | det |
| 7 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slashed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slashed | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brought | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slash | past | Fionn | into nettles = nettle; with a stick | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into they=Result with stick=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Fionn not said here | nettles = nettle | low property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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