Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 30
She travelled in the direction of Iollan’s stronghold.
Who acts: sister · What happens: travel · To what, where: direction
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 (sister), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 direction | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 direction | det |
| 5 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stronghold | case |
| 7 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stronghold | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Iollan | case |
| 9 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 direction | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | sister | the direction of Iollan's stronghold | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
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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