Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant, sentence 40
And within a week he could not bear her to be out of his sight for an instant.
Who acts: dog · What happens: not bear, be · To what, where: animal, sight
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. On the following day Fergus called his servant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bear | cc |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 week | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 week | det |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bear | advmod |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sight | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sight | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sight | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 instant | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 instant | det |
| 18 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | dog | animal | week | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | dog not said here | dog's sight | for a instant | tree rules |
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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