Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 3
She, for she had a quest’s eye, called out that the master of the Fianna was coming over the ridges to the Dun, and she ran from the keep to meet you.”
Who acts: Allen, master · What happens: have, call out, come, run, meet · To what, where: eye, ridges, keep, you
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 (Allen, master), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 had | case |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 quest | det |
| 7 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 quest | case |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eye | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 master | det |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Fianna | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fianna | det |
| 18 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 master | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 called | advcl |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 ridges | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ridges | det |
| 23 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 coming | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Dun | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Dun | det |
| 26 | Dun | Dun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ridges | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ran | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 keep | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 keep | det |
| 33 | keep | keep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ran | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 meet | mark |
| 35 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ran | advcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 meet | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Allen | a quest's eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | a quest's eye not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | the master of the Fianna | the ridges to the Dun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over ridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Allen | the keep | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from keep=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Allen not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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