Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 13
The thorn that went into Bran’s foot ran into Fionn’s also.
Who acts: thorn · What happens: go, run · To what, where: foot, Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorn), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thorn | det |
| 2 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thorn | acl:relcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 6 | Bran | Bran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Bran | case |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 Fionn | case |
| 11 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Fionn | case |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the thorn | Bran's foot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the thorn | into Fionn result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fionn=Result |
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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