Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 10
He learned to jump by chasing hares in a bumpy field.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: learn, jump, chase · To what, where: hares, bumpy field
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 (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 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 jump | mark |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 learned | xcomp |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 chasing | mark |
| 6 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 jump | advcl |
| 7 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chasing | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 10 | bumpy | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 field | amod |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chasing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Fionn | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | jump | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | Fionn not said here | hares | a bumpy field | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hare=Theme in field=Trajectory |
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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