Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15
While he was swimming one remarked: “He is fair and well shaped,” and thereafter he was called “Fionn” or the Fair One.
Who acts: master · What happens: swim, remark, be, shape, call · To what, where: one, master · 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 (master), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 swimming | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swimming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swimming | aux |
| 4 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fair | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 swimming | obj |
| 6 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 swimming | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fair | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fair | cop |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shaped | cc |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 shaped | advmod |
| 14 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fair | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shaped | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 18 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fair | conj |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fionn | punct |
| 23 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fionn | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 One | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 One | det |
| 27 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 One | amod |
| 28 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fionn | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past · progressive | master | one | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | master | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shape in a quote | participle | master not said here | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | master | thereafter property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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