Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 33
So the time went, and Fionn grew long and straight and tough like a sapling; limber as a willow, and with the flirt and spring of a young bird.
Who acts: time, Fionn · What happens: go, grow · To what, where: limber
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 (time, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 straight | cc |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tough | cc |
| 13 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 sapling | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sapling | det |
| 16 | sapling | sapling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tough | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 limber | punct |
| 18 | limber | limber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 willow | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 willow | det |
| 21 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flirt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flirt | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flirt | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flirt | det |
| 26 | flirt | flirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spring | cc |
| 28 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flirt | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bird | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bird | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bird | amod |
| 32 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flirt | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the time | limber | as a willow; with the flirt of a young bird and spring | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with flirt=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Fionn | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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