Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 42
He gripped his spear on that reflection, and ran as he had not run in his life, so that it was a panting, dishevelled man that raced heavily through the gates of the great Dun.
Who acts: Chief, spear, man · What happens: grip, run, not run, be, dishevell, race · To what, where: spear, life, man, gates
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 (Chief, spear, man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gripped | nsubj |
| 2 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gripped | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 reflection | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 reflection | det |
| 7 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gripped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gripped | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 run | advmod |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 ran | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 panting | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 panting | case |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 panting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 panting | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 panting | det |
| 25 | panting | panting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dishevelled | punct |
| 27 | dishevelled | dishevell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gripped | conj |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dishevelled | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 raced | nsubj |
| 30 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | acl:relcl |
| 31 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 30 raced | advmod |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 gates | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 gates | det |
| 34 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 raced | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Dun | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dun | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Dun | amod |
| 38 | Dun | Dun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 gates | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | past | Chief | Chief's spear | on that reflection | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spear=Experiencer on reflection=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | past | Chief not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not run | past · perfect | Chief | Chief's life | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | spear | so a panting | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dishevell | past | Chief not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | race | past | man | the gates of the great Dun | heavily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory |
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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