Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 8
The hare crouching in the fronds was visible to him, and the fish that swayed in-visibly in the sway and flicker of a green bank.
Who acts: hare, fish, green bank · What happens: crouch, be, sway, flicker · To what, where: fronds, trouble, sway
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, fish, green bank), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visible | nsubj |
| 3 | crouching | crouch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hare | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fronds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fronds | det |
| 6 | fronds | frond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crouching | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 visible | cop |
| 8 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 visible | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swayed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swayed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swayed | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 swayed | nsubj |
| 16 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 visible | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 visibly | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | visibly | visibly | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 swayed | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sway | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sway | det |
| 22 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swayed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flicker | cc |
| 24 | flicker | flicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sway | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 bank | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bank | det |
| 27 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bank | amod |
| 28 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flicker | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 visible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | gerund | the hare not said here | the fronds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frond=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the hare | trouble | visible property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sway | past | the fish | the sway and flicker of a green bank | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in visibly=Location | ||||
| 4 | flicker | a green bank | nom flicker «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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