Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 24
Fionn went home on the robber’s shoulder, and the robber gave great snorts and made great jumps and behaved like a first-rate horse.
Who acts: Fionn, robber · What happens: go, give, make, behave · To what, where: shoulder, great snorts, great jumps
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 (Fionn, robber), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 robber | det |
| 6 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 robber | case |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 robber | det |
| 12 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 snorts | amod |
| 15 | snorts | snort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 jumps | amod |
| 19 | jumps | jump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 behaved | cc |
| 21 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 jumps | acl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 horse | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 rate | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 first | punct |
| 26 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 horse | compound |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 behaved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Fionn | the robber's shoulder | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the robber | great snorts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snort=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the robber not said here | great jumps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jump=Product | ||||
| 4 | behave | participle | great jumps not said here | like a rate horse | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like horse=Attribute |
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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