Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 37
He might face in this direction, away from, or towards a smile on a hidden face and a finger on a string.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: face
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 face | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 face | aux |
| 3 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 face | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smile | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 smile | cc |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smile | det |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 17 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 smile | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finger | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 finger | det |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 face | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 string | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 string | det |
| 24 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finger | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | might | Fionn | towards a smile on a hidden face and a finger on a string; in this direction; away property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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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