Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 10

At Moy Life’ he came on lads swimming in a pool; and, as he looked on them sporting in the flush tide, he thought that the tricks they performed were not hard for him, and that he could have shown them new ones.

Who acts: hare, lads, tricks · What happens: come, swim, look, sport, think, perform · To what, where: Moy, pool, flush tide, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, lads, tricks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 Moy	case
2	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
3	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Moy	flat
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Moy	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 lads	case
8	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
9	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 lads	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 thought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 thought	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thought	advcl
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 sporting	mark
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sporting	nsubj
21	sporting	sport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 looked	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 tide	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tide	det
24	flush	flush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tide	compound
25	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sporting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 thought	nsubj
28	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 hard	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tricks	det
31	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hard	nsubj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 performed	nsubj
33	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tricks	acl:relcl
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hard	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hard	advmod
36	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thought	ccomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hard	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 shown	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 shown	cc
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 shown	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 shown	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 shown	aux
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 shown	aux
45	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 thought	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 shown	obj
47	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 ones	amod
48	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 shown	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	hare		Moy	on lads	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at moy=Location
2	swim	gerund	lads not said here		a pool		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Trajectory
3	look	past	hare				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	sport	gerund	lads = lad		the flush tide		tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	hare				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	perform	past	tricks = trick	the tricks not said here			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
7	not is	past	the tricks			for hare; hard property	tree rules
8	show	could · perfect	hare	tricks = trick			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient one=Topic

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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