Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 19
“She ran towards your appearance that had your arms stretched out to her.”
Who acts: Fionn, appearance · What happens: run, have, stretch out · To what, where: appearance, arms, Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, appearance), 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 | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 appearance | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appearance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 had | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 stretched | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | past | Fionn | your appearance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards appearance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | your appearance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stretch out in a quote | participle · passive | your arms | Fionn | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to she=Result |
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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