Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 37
They leaped and played about the fawn, licking its face, and rubbing delighted noses against its neck.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: leap, play, lick, rub · To what, where: face, delighted noses, neck
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 (dogs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 played | cc |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 fawn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fawn | det |
| 7 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licking | punct |
| 9 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 played | advcl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 licking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rubbing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rubbing | cc |
| 14 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 leaped | advcl |
| 15 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 noses | amod |
| 16 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rubbing | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rubbing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | dogs = dog | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | past | dogs = dog not said here | about the fawn | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lick | gerund | dogs = dog not said here | inch's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | ||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | dogs = dog not said here | delighted noses | inch's neck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against neck=Destination |
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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