Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 3
You had to go fast to keep away from the switch behind, and a small boy feels a switch.
Who acts: You, small boy · What happens: have, go, keep away, feel · To what, where: switch
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 (You, small boy), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 switch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 switch | det |
| 11 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 away | obl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 11 switch | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feels | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feels | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feels | nsubj |
| 18 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 switch | det |
| 20 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feels | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | You not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep away | to-infinitive | You not said here | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | a small boy | a switch | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=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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