Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 30
Fionn took his lovely head from its shoulders and went back through the night to Tara.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: take, go back · To what, where: lovely head, shoulders, Tara
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 (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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 shoulders | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Tara | case |
| 16 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Fionn | Fionn's lovely head | head's shoulders | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go back | past | Fionn not said here | Tara | night | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tara=Result |
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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