Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 4
When the stranger took his road the women went with him a short distance.
Who acts: stranger, women · What happens: take, go · To what, where: road, short distance
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 (stranger, women), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 road | nmod:poss |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 women | det |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distance | amod |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the stranger | stranger's road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the women | a short distance | with stranger | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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