Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 10
And in a little he heard the deliberate pace of that great being.
Who acts: eye · What happens: hear · To what, where: deliberate pace, little
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 little | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pace | det |
| 8 | deliberate | deliberate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pace | amod |
| 9 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 great | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 great | nsubj |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pace | nmod |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | eye | the deliberate pace of great | a little | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pace=Stimulus |
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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