Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 29
Three times she broke away and came bounding to us, and three times the dogs took her by the throat and dragged her back.”
Who acts: Fionn, dogs · What happens: break away, come, bound, take, drag back · To what, where: us, 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, dogs), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 8 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bounding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 times | nummod |
| 14 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dogs | det |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 throat | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 throat | det |
| 21 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dragged | cc |
| 23 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dragged | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 dragged | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break away | past | Fionn | time | away property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | Fionn not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bound | gerund | Fionn not said here | us | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to we=Destination | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the dogs | Fionn | time | by the throat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||
| 5 | drag back | past | the dogs not said here | Fionn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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