Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 5
He was seeking the instruction of a crowd, and therefore when he met a crowd he went into it.
Who acts: trouble · What happens: seek, meet, go, instruct · To what, where: instruction, crowd
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 (trouble), 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 seeking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seeking | aux |
| 3 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 instruction | det |
| 5 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeking | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crowd | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crowd | det |
| 8 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 instruction | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 met | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 met | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seeking | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crowd | det |
| 16 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · progressive | trouble | the instruction of a crowd | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | trouble | a crowd | therefore property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | trouble | a crowd not said here | crowd | tree rules | |||
| 4 | instruct | a crowd | nom instruction «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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