Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 11
His mind, quietly busy on all sides, picked up one sound and dwelt on it.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: pick up, dwell, mind · To what, where: one sound, mind
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mind | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 busy | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picked | punct |
| 10 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 busy | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 picked | compound:prt |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sound | nummod |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 picked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dwelt | cc |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 busy | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dwelt | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | participle | one sound | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dwell | participle | mind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | |||||
| 3 | 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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