Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 12

If the hare turned while Fionn was after her it was switch for Fionn; so that in a while it did not matter to Fionn which way the hare jumped for he could jump that way too.

Who acts: hare, Fionn, it · What happens: turn, be, not matter, jump · To what, where: switch, way, Fionn

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 (hare, Fionn, it), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 switch	mark
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 switch	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 switch	cop
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 switch	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 switch	cop
12	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Fionn	case
14	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 switch	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 matter	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 matter	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 while	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 while	det
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 matter	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 matter	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 matter	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 matter	advmod
24	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Fionn	case
26	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 matter	obl
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 matter	obl:unmarked
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hare	det
30	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jumped	nsubj
31	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 way	acl:relcl
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 jump	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 jump	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 jump	aux
35	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 jumped	advcl
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 jump	obj
38	too	too	ADV	_	35 jump	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the hare					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Fionn	switch			for Fionn	tree rules
3	not matter	past · do-support	it	which way	Fionn	while		vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to fionn=Experiencer
4	jump	past	the hare	which way not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
5	jump	could	Fionn	that way				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=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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