Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
“And when she sees me far out on the plain, she will run through the great gate to meet me.”
Who acts: Goll · What happens: see, run, meet · To what, where: Fionn, plain
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goll), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sees | cc |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 sees | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sees | obj |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 out | advmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 sees | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plain | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 gate | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gate | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gate | amod |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 run | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Goll | Fionn | out property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run in a quote | future | Goll | the plain | through the great gate | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Goll not said here | Fionn | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
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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