Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 13
Long-ways, sideways or baw-ways, Fionn hopped where the hare hopped, and at last he was the owner of a hop that any hare would give an ear for.
Who acts: Fionn, hare · What happens: hop, be, give · To what, where: baw ways, owner, last, ear
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, hare), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ways | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sideways | punct |
| 5 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ways | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 ways | cc |
| 7 | baw | baw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ways | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 baw | punct |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ways | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hopped | punct |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hopped | nsubj |
| 12 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ways | acl:relcl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 hopped | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hare | det |
| 15 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hopped | nsubj |
| 16 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hopped | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 owner | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 owner | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owner | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 owner | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 owner | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 owner | det |
| 24 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ways | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hop | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hop | det |
| 27 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owner | nmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 give | mark |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 hare | det |
| 30 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hop | acl |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 ear | det |
| 34 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 give | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ways | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | Fionn | baw ways not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | the hare | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Fionn | the owner | last | of a hop | tree rules | ||
| 4 | give | would | any hare | a ear | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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