Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23

Fionn learned to swim until he could pop into the water like an otter and slide through it like an eel.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: learn, swim, pop, slide · To what, where: water

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	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	xcomp
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 pop	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pop	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pop	aux
8	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swim	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pop	obl
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 otter	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 otter	det
14	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pop	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slide	cc
16	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pop	conj
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slide	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 eel	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 eel	det
21	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slide	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Fionn		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swim	to-infinitive	Fionn not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pop	could	Fionn	into the water result; like a otter	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into water=Result
4	slide	infinitive	Fionn not said here	through otter; like a eel	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=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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