Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 2
The hounds were whistled to heel, and a sober, homeward march began.
Who acts: sober · What happens: whistle, heel, begin · To what, where: hounds
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sober), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hounds | det |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whistled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whistled | aux:pass |
| 4 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 heel | mark |
| 6 | heel | heel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 whistled | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sober | det |
| 10 | sober | sober | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 march | punct |
| 12 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 march | compound |
| 13 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sober | conj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whistled | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past · passive | the hounds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | heel | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | a sober and homeward march | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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