Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 28
Fionn had run after them as deer: he jumped after them as hares: he dived after them as fish.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: run, jump, dive
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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 deer | case |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | parataxis |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 hares | case |
| 14 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 jumped | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 dived | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dived | nsubj |
| 17 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dived | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 fish | case |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dived | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | Fionn | after women = woman | as deer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | jump | past | Fionn | after women = woman | as hares | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | dive | past | Fionn | after women = woman | as fish | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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