Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 1
As they paced along Uct Dealv railed bitterly against the hound, and shook and jerked her chain.
Who acts: they, Uct · What happens: pace, rail, shake, jerk · To what, where: chain
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Uct), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 paced | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paced | nsubj |
| 3 | paced | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shook | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 railed | mark |
| 5 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 railed | nsubj |
| 6 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Uct | flat |
| 7 | railed | rail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paced | advcl |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 railed | advmod |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 hound | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hound | det |
| 11 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 railed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shook | cc |
| 14 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jerked | cc |
| 16 | jerked | jerk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shook | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chain | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jerked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pace | past | they | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rail | past | Uct | against the hound; bitterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | jerk | past | Uct's chain | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=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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