Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 12

He chopped them up and chopped them down.

Who acts: Leinsterman · What happens: chop up, chop down · To what, where: poets

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leinsterman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chopped	cc
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chopped	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chopped	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 chopped	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	Leinsterman	poets = poet					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	chop down	past	Leinsterman not said here	poets = poet					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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