Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 25
It may be that a fish cannot hop, but he gets there in a flash, and he isn’t there in another.
Who acts: fish, Fionn · What happens: be, not hop, get, not be · To what, where: flash, another
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 (fish, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 be | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hop | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hop | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hop | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hop | advmod |
| 9 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 be | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gets | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gets | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gets | nsubj |
| 13 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hop | advcl |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gets | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flash | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flash | det |
| 17 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gets | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 there | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 there | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 there | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 there | cop |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gets | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 there | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | may | fish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not hop | can | a fish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | Fionn | a flash; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | Fionn | another | there property | 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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