Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 7

His boast was that when he saw an open door he went into it, and when he saw a closed door he went into it.

Who acts: boast, tongue · What happens: be, go, see, close, boast · To what, where: open door, boast, closed door

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boast, tongue), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 boast	nmod:poss
2	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 door	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 door	det
21	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 door	amod
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 door	acl:relcl
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	tongue's boast			see property	tree rules
2	go	past	tongue	a open door not said here	boast		tree rules
3	see	past	tongue	a closed door			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
4	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	go	past	tongue	a closed door not said here	boast		tree rules
6	boast		tongue				nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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