Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 7
Fionn’s mind learned to jump in a bumpier field than that in which he had chased rabbits.
Who acts: mind, Fionn · What happens: learn, jump, chase, mind · To what, where: bumpier field, Fionn
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 (mind, 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Fionn | case |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 jump | mark |
| 6 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 9 | bumpier | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 field | amod |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jump | obl |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 field | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 chased | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 chased | aux |
| 17 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 field | acl:relcl |
| 18 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chased | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Fionn's mind | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | jump | to-infinitive | Fionn's mind not said here | a bumpier field than that | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | chase | past · perfect · passive | Fionn | a bumpier field than that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | Fionn | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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