Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 14

But where Fionn would venture his toes his ears would follow.

Who acts: Fionn, ears · What happens: venture, follow · To what, where: toes

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 (Fionn, ears), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 venture	cc
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 venture	advmod
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 venture	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 venture	aux
5	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toes	nmod:poss
7	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 venture	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 follow	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 follow	aux
11	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 toes	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 venture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	venture	would	Fionn	Fionn's toes					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toe=Topic
2	follow	would	Fionn's ears	Fionn's toes not said here					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=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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