Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23
From these peepings and discussions they would return languid and discouraged.
Who acts: men · What happens: return · To what, where: languid
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 (men), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 peepings | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 peepings | det |
| 3 | peepings | peeping | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 discussions | cc |
| 5 | discussions | discussion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 peepings | conj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 return | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | aux |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 discussions | acl:relcl |
| 9 | languid | languid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 return | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 discouraged | cc |
| 11 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 languid | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 peepings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | would | men = man | languid | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent languid=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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