Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 14
He was taught to swim, and it may be that his heart sank when he fronted the lesson.
Who acts: Fionn, way · What happens: teach, swim, be, front · To what, where: Fionn, lesson
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, way), 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 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taught | aux:pass |
| 3 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 swim | mark |
| 5 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taught | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sank | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sank | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sank | nsubj:outer |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sank | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sank | cop |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sank | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sank | nsubj |
| 14 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taught | conj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 fronted | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fronted | nsubj |
| 17 | fronted | front | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sank | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lesson | det |
| 19 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fronted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · passive | Fionn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | swim | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | may | way | sink property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | front | past | Fionn | the lesson | tree rules |
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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