Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 33

A stone might sling at one from a tree-top; but from which tree of a thousand trees did it come?

Who acts: stone · What happens: sling, come · To what, where: tree

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 (stone), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sling	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sling	aux
4	sling	sling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sling	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 top	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 top	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 tree	punct
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thousand	det
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 trees	nummod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tree	nmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sling	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sling	might	a stone					at one from a tree top	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at one=Destination
2	come	past · do-support	stone			which tree of thousand trees			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location

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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