Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 28
“And they dragged her back to the figure that seemed to be Fionn.
Who acts: hounds, figure · What happens: drag back, seem, be · To what, where: Fionn, figure
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 (hounds, 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 | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dragged | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 dragged | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 figure | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 figure | det |
| 9 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 figure | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 Fionn | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Fionn | cop |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag back in a quote | past | hounds = hound | Fionn | the figure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to figure=Destination | |||
| 2 | seem in a quote | past | the figure | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn | tree rules |
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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