Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30
You cannot catch a fish by swimming, but you can try, and Fionn tried.
Who acts: You, Fionn · What happens: not catch, swim, try · To what, where: fish
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 catch | advmod |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 swimming | mark |
| 8 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 catch | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | aux |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 catch | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tried | cc |
| 16 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | can | You | a fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim | gerund | You not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | can | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | try | past | Fionn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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