Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 27
But the deer that Fionn got the track of did not get away, and it seemed even that the animals sought him so many did he catch.
Who acts: deer, track, it, animals, Fionn · What happens: get, not get away, seem, seek, catch · To what, where: that, deer, many
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 (deer, track, it, animals), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deer | det |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 got | obl |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 track | det |
| 8 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 track | acl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seemed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | parataxis |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 sought | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sought | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 animals | det |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sought | nsubj |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seemed | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sought | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 catch | obj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 catch | aux |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 catch | nsubj |
| 28 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sought | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the deer | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not get away | past · do-support | the track not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | the animals | deer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch | past · do-support | Fionn | many | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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