Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 25
He put his hand into Fionn’s, and the Chief felt as if that little hand had been put into his heart.
Who acts: boy, Chief · What happens: put, feel · To what, where: hand, Fionn, little hand, heart
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Chief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 6 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fionn | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Chief | det |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 hand | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 put | aux:pass |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 felt | advcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | boy | boy's hand | Fionn | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the Chief | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | that little hand | boy's heart | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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