Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28

He twists this way and disappears the other way.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: twist, disappear · To what, where: way, other way

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 twists	nsubj
2	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twists	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 disappears	cc
6	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 twists	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disappears	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 twists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	present	Fionn	this way					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
2	disappear	present	Fionn not said here	the other way					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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