Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 21
His word was passed, and he stayed in his tree as silent as a mouse and as watchful, until he fell out of it.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: pass, stay, fall, word · To what, where: word, tree
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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 word | nmod:poss |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stayed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stayed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stayed | nsubj |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tree | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 silent | case |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stayed | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 mouse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watchful | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 watchful | case |
| 19 | watchful | watchful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stayed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 fell | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stayed | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | Fionn's word | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | stay | past | Fionn | Fionn's tree | as silent; as a mouse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Fionn | tree | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out it=Location | ||||
| 4 | word | Fionn | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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