Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 18
One can imagine the surprise of Aillen mac Midna, seeing his fire caught and quenched by an invisible hand.
Who acts: One, fire, mac · What happens: imagine, see, catch, quench, surprise, fire · To what, where: surprise, fire, Aillen mac
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 (One, fire, mac), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 surprise | det |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mac | case |
| 7 | Aillen | Aillen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | compound |
| 8 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 surprise | nmod |
| 9 | Midna | Midna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mac | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 imagine | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seeing | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 quenched | cc |
| 16 | quenched | quench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 caught | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quenched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | One | the surprise of Aillen mac | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot surprise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | One not said here | mac's fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | mac's fire not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | quench | participle | mac's fire not said here | by a invisible hand | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | surprise | Aillen mac | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | fire | mac | nom fire «event 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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