Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 33
When Fionn came in sight of the great keep his blood and his feet quickened, and now and again he waved a spear in the air.
Who acts: Fionn, feet, Chief · What happens: come, keep, quicken, wave, sight · To what, where: sight, spear, great keep blood
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 (Fionn, feet, Chief), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blood | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blood | amod |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 blood | compound |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 quickened | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quickened | nsubj |
| 15 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 waved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waved | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 waved | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 again | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 now | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 waved | nsubj |
| 22 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spear | det |
| 24 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waved | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Fionn | sight of Chief's great keep blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | quicken | past | Chief's feet | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | wave | past | Chief | a spear | now | in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Patient in air=Theme | ||
| 5 | sight | Chief's great keep blood | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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