Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 30
One dreamed of them, and they were expected in the morning as the sun is.
Who acts: One, sun · What happens: dream, expect, be · To what, where: women
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 (One, sun), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dreamed | nsubj |
| 2 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dreamed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 expected | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 expected | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | aux:pass |
| 9 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dreamed | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 expected | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 expected | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | One | of women = woman | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | expect | past · passive | women = woman | morning | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | the sun | vn exist-47.1 «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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