Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 45
But Fionn caught the eye of his butler, Gariv Crona’n, the Rough Buzzer, and held it.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: catch, hold · To what, where: eye, Buzzer
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eye | det |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 butler | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 butler | nmod:poss |
| 8 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eye | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Gariv | punct |
| 10 | Gariv | Gariv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 butler | appos |
| 11 | Crona’n | Crona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gariv | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Buzzer | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Buzzer | det |
| 14 | Rough | Rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Buzzer | amod |
| 15 | Buzzer | Buzzer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gariv | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 held | cc |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Fionn | the eye of Chief's butler | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Fionn not said here | Buzzer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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