Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
He was given good training by the women in running and leaping and swimming.
Who acts: women · What happens: give, run, leap · To what, where: He
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 training | amod |
| 5 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 women | det |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obl |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 running | mark |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leaping | cc |
| 12 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 running | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swimming | cc |
| 14 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the women | He | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient training=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the women not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leap | gerund | the women not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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