Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 4
They were pacing so, through the golden-shafted, tender-coloured eve, when a fawn leaped suddenly from covert, and, with that leap, all quietness vanished: the men shouted, the dogs gave tongue, and a furious chase commenced.
Who acts: dogs, fawn, leap, men, furious chase · What happens: pace, shaft, leap, vanish, shout, give · To what, where: shafted coloured eve, covert, tongue
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, fawn, leap, men), 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 | 3 pacing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pacing | aux |
| 3 | pacing | pace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 pacing | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eve | punct |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 eve | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eve | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shafted | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 golden | punct |
| 10 | shafted | shaft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eve | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eve | punct |
| 12 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coloured | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tender | punct |
| 14 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eve | amod |
| 15 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pacing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaped | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 leaped | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fawn | det |
| 19 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | nsubj |
| 20 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eve | conj |
| 21 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 leaped | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 covert | case |
| 23 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 vanished | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 vanished | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leap | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 leap | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 leap | det |
| 29 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vanished | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leap | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 quietness | det |
| 32 | quietness | quietness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 vanished | nsubj |
| 33 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pacing | parataxis |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 shouted | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 men | det |
| 36 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 shouted | nsubj |
| 37 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 vanished | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 gave | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 dogs | det |
| 40 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 gave | nsubj |
| 41 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 shouted | conj |
| 42 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gave | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 commenced | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 commenced | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 chase | det |
| 46 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 chase | amod |
| 47 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 commenced | nsubj |
| 48 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 gave | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pacing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pace | past · progressive | dogs = dog | the shafted coloured eve | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eve=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shaft | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | leap | participle | a fawn | covert | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from covert=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | vanish | past | that leap | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | past | the men | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | give | past | the dogs | tongue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | ||||
| 7 | commence | participle | a furious chase | 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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