Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3
They fed the man, and during his feeding Fionn had been shooed from the door as if he were a chicken.
Who acts: guardians, man · What happens: feed, shoo, be · To what, where: man, door
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 (guardians, man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shooed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shooed | cc |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 feeding | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feeding | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shooed | obl |
| 10 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feeding | appos |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shooed | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 shooed | aux:pass |
| 13 | shooed | shoo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fed | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shooed | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 chicken | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 chicken | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 chicken | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chicken | det |
| 22 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shooed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | guardians = guardian | the man | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shoo | past · perfect · passive | guardians = guardian not said here | the door | during man's feeding | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: from door=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | man | as a chicken | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | man | nom feeding «act intransitive»: 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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