Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 12
In this place you may swim.
Who acts: you · What happens: swim · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swim | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 swim | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 swim | aux |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | may | you | this place | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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