Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 38
A lance might slide at him from this bush or from the one yonder..
Who acts: lance · What happens: slide · To what, where: bush
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 (lance), 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 lance | det |
| 2 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slide | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 slide | aux |
| 4 | slide | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slide | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slide | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bush | conj |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 15 | .. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 4 slide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | might | a lance | this bush or the one | at Fionn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at he=Source from bush=Trajectory |
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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