Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 24
How he shaped? what muscles he had? and did he spring clean from the mark or had he to get off with a push?
Who acts: Fionn, muscles · What happens: shape, have, spring, get off · To what, where: mark, Fionn
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, muscles), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 shaped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shaped | nsubj |
| 3 | shaped | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 shaped | obj |
| 6 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spring | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spring | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spring | nsubj |
| 13 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shaped | conj |
| 14 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spring | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 mark | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mark | det |
| 17 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spring | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shaped | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 get | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 push | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 push | det |
| 26 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | past | Fionn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product | |||||
| 2 | have | past | muscles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring | past · do-support | Fionn | the mark | clean property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mark=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | have | past | Fionn not said here | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get off | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | with a push | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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