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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 12

On one of these adventures, as they searched a flooded river to find the ford, they saw a solitary woman in a chariot driving from the west.

Who acts: adventures, chariot · What happens: search, flood, find, see, drive · To what, where: flooded river, ford, solitary woman, chariot, west

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, chariot), 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

caseoblcasedetnmodpunctmarknsubjdetamodobjmarkadvcldetobjpunctnsubjparataxisdetamodobjcasedetoblaclcasedetoblpunctrootOnADPoneNUMofADPtheseDETadventuresNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJtheyPRONsearchedVERBaDETfloodedVERBriverNOUNtoPARTfindVERBtheDETfordNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONsawVERBaDETsolitaryADJwomanNOUNinADPaDETchariotNOUNdrivingVERBfromADPtheDETwestNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_2 onecase
2oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 searchedobl
3ofofADP_5 adventurescase
4thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem5 adventuresdet
5adventuresadventureNOUNNumber=Plur2 onenmod
6,,PUNCT_9 searchedpunct
7asasSCONJ_9 searchedmark
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 searchednsubj
9searchedsearchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 riverdet
11floodedfloodVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 riveramod
12riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing9 searchedobj
13totoPART_14 findmark
14findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf9 searchedadvcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 forddet
16fordfordNOUNNumber=Sing14 findobj
17,,PUNCT_19 sawpunct
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 sawnsubj
19sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 searchedparataxis
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 womandet
21solitarysolitaryADJDegree=Pos22 womanamod
22womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing19 sawobj
23ininADP_25 chariotcase
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 chariotdet
25chariotchariotNOUNNumber=Sing19 sawobl
26drivingdriveVERBVerbForm=Ger25 chariotacl
27fromfromADP_29 westcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 westdet
29westwestNOUNNumber=Sing26 drivingobl
30..PUNCT_9 searchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1searchpastadventures = adventurea flooded riveron one of this adventuresvn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Location
2floodparticiplevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3findto-infinitiveadventures = adventure not said herethe fordvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ford=Topic
4seepastadventures = adventurea solitary womana chariotvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
5drivegerunda chariot not said herethe westvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from west=Trajectory

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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