Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 22
“She ran to those arms, and when she reached them the figure lifted its hand.
Who acts: Fionn, figure · What happens: run, reach, lift · To what, where: arms, hand
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, figure), 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 arms | det |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lifted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lifted | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lifted | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 figure | det |
| 14 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | nsubj |
| 15 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | to that arms result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to arm=Result | ||||
| 2 | reach in a quote | past | Fionn | arms = arm | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift in a quote | past | the figure | figure's hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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