Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 32
We were left in the rough grass, staring about us and at each other, and listening to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts.”
Who acts: wind · What happens: leave, stare, listen, moan · To what, where: We, rough grass
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 (wind), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grass | amod |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 staring | punct |
| 9 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 staring | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 each | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 us | conj |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 listening | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 listening | cc |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 staring | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 moan | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moan | det |
| 21 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 listening | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moan | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 terror | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 terror | det |
| 27 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moan | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hearts | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 terror | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | We | the rough grass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in grass=Location | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | about us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about we=Theme | |||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | to the moan of the wind and the terror of our hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to moan=Theme | |||||
| 4 | moan | the wind | nom moan «communication intransitive»: of=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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