Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 35
Fionn was a woodsman, but he had only two eyes to look with, one set of feet to carry him in one sole direction.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, have, look, carry · To what, where: woodsman, two eyes, Fionn, one sole direction
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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woodsman | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woodsman | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woodsman | det |
| 4 | woodsman | woodsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woodsman | parataxis |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 two | advmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eyes | nummod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 set | nummod |
| 17 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woodsman | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 set | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 direction | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 direction | nummod |
| 25 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 direction | amod |
| 26 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woodsman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Fionn | a woodsman and one set of feet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Fionn | two eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | Fionn | one sole direction | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in direction=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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