Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 6
“I used to eat fruits and roots in the summer,” the boy continued, “but in the winter food was left for me in a cave.”
Who acts: Fionn, boy · What happens: use, eat, continue, leave · To what, where: fruits, winter food, cave
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 continued | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 roots | cc |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fruits | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 summer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 summer | det |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 continued | nsubj |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 food | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 food | det |
| 22 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | compound |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 continued | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 left | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 cave | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | past | Fionn | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Fionn not said here | fruits and roots | summer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | |||
| 3 | continue | past | the boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | past · passive | the winter food | a cave | for Fionn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cave=Location |
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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