Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 49

The Nuts of Knowledge drop from the Sacred Bush into the pool, and as they float, a salmon takes them in his mouth and eats them.”

Who acts: Nuts, salmon · What happens: drop, float, take, eat · To what, where: Bush, Nuts, mouth

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nuts, salmon), 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 Nuts	det
2	Nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drop	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Knowledge	case
4	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nuts	nmod
5	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 Bush	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bush	det
8	Sacred	Sacred	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Bush	nmod:desc
9	Bush	Bush	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drop	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 takes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 takes	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 float	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 float	nsubj
17	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 takes	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 float	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 salmon	det
20	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 takes	nsubj
21	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drop	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 takes	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 takes	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eats	cc
27	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 takes	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eats	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	present	the Nuts of Knowledge		the Bush Sacred	into the pool	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from bush=Destination into pool=Initial_Location
2	float	present	Nuts = nut				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present	a salmon	Nuts = nut	bush's mouth		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Value in mouth=Location
4	eat	present	a salmon not said here	Nuts = nut			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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