Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 7
In his wildest moment Fionn was thoughtful, and now, although running hard, he was thoughtful.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: be, run
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 (Fionn), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 moment | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thoughtful | obl |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thoughtful | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thoughtful | cop |
| 7 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 running | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 running | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 running | mark |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thoughtful | conj |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 running | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thoughtful | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thoughtful | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thoughtful | cop |
| 18 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thoughtful | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thoughtful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fionn | moment | thoughtful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | Fionn not said here | now | hard property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Fionn | thoughtful property | 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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