Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5
As they passed the man lifted a hand and bent a knee to Fionn.
Who acts: women, man · What happens: pass, lift, bend · To what, where: hand, knee, Fionn
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 (women, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bent | cc |
| 10 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knee | det |
| 12 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Fionn | case |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bent | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | women = woman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past | the man | a hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bend | past | the man not said here | a knee | Fionn | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent knee=Patient to fionn=Result |
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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