Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8
They chased Fionn into the house, and when they got him in they chased him out again.
Who acts: women · What happens: chase, get, chase out · To what, where: Fionn, house
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), 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 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chased | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 chased | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 chased | nsubj |
| 15 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 chased | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 chased | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 chased | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | women = woman | Fionn | the house | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fionn=Theme into house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get | past | women = woman | Fionn | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | chase out | past | women = woman | Fionn | again | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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