Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 15
Flies got up his nose, two at a time, one up each nose, and his head nearly fell off the way he sneezed.
Who acts: Flies, head, Fionn · What happens: get up, fall off, sneeze · To what, where: nose, way
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flies, head, 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 | Flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 two | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nose | appos |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 two | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 got | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 one | compound:prt |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 nose | det |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sneezed | nsubj |
| 26 | sneezed | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Flies | Fionn's nose | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent nose=Beneficiary one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | Fionn's head | the way | nearly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient way=Extent | |||
| 3 | sneeze | past | Fionn | the way not said here | 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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