Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 12
Then they went hand in hand in the country that smells of apple-blossom and honey, looking on heavy-boughed trees and on dancing and beaming clouds.
Who acts: Iollan, country · What happens: go, smell, look · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan, country), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 smells | nsubj |
| 11 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 country | acl:relcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blossom | case |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blossom | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 apple | punct |
| 15 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smells | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 honey | cc |
| 17 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blossom | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 trees | case |
| 21 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boughed | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 heavy | punct |
| 23 | boughed | boughed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trees | amod |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looking | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dancing | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 dancing | case |
| 27 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trees | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clouds | cc |
| 29 | beaming | beaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 clouds | compound |
| 30 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dancing | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iollan | hand | hand | then | in the country | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |
| 2 | smell | present | the country | of apple blossom and honey | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of blossom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Iollan not said here | on boughed trees and dancing and beaming clouds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=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.
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