Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 9
He knew the way, and in no great time he came to the hill where Uct Dealv was.
Who acts: Iollan · What happens: know, come · To what, where: way, hill
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iollan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 time | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 was | advmod |
| 17 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 18 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Uct | flat |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hill | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Iollan | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Iollan | the hill | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location |
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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