Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 9
They chased each other around the house for another whisper.
Who acts: women · What happens: chase · To what, where: each, 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 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 chased | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 whisper | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 whisper | det |
| 10 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | women = woman | each | the house | for another whisper | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme around house=Trajectory |
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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