Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 28
At the name of Fionn the servant almost fell out of his standing.
Who acts: servant, Fionn · What happens: fall, name, stand · To what, where: name, Fionn
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 (servant, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 name | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Fionn | case |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 standing | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 standing | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 standing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the servant | the name of Fionn | out Fionn's standing; almost property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at name=Location | |||
| 2 | name | Fionn | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | stand | Fionn | nom standing «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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