Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 16
Here it would seem that Fionn used magic, for spreading out his fringed mantle he caught the flame.
Who acts: it, Fionn · What happens: seem, use, spread out, fringe, catch · To what, where: magic, fringed mantle, flame
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 (it, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 seem | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | aux |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 used | mark |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | ccomp |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spreading | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 spreading | mark |
| 11 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 used | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 spreading | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mantle | amod |
| 15 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spreading | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mantle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flame | det |
| 19 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | would | it | here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Fionn | magic | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spread out | gerund | Fionn not said here | Fionn's fringed mantle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mantle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | catch | past | Fionn | the flame | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/27/16/