Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 26
He could run a deer down and haul it home by the reluctant skull.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: run down, haul · To what, where: deer
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), 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 | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 haul | cc |
| 8 | haul | haul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 haul | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 haul | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 skull | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skull | det |
| 13 | reluctant | reluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skull | amod |
| 14 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 haul | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | could | Fionn | a deer | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deer=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | haul | infinitive | Fionn not said here | deer | by the reluctant skull; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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