Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 25

Finegas rose from where he sat by the osier basket.

Who acts: Finegas, Fionn · What happens: rise, sit

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finegas, Fionn), 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	Finegas	finega	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 where	case
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 sat	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 basket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basket	det
9	osier	osier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 basket	compound
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	Finegas						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Fionn					by the osier basket	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by basket=Location

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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