Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

Crimthann absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as rapidly.

Who acts: Crimthann · What happens: absorb, digest · To what, where: instruction

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 (Crimthann), 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	Crimthann	Crimthann	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 absorbed	nsubj
2	absorbed	absorb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorbed	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sponge	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sponge	det
6	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 digested	cc
8	digested	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 absorbed	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 digested	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 rapidly	advmod
11	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	8 digested	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 absorbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	past	Crimthann	instruction				like a sponge	vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal instruction=Theme
2	digest	past	Crimthann not said here	instruction				rapidly property	tree rules

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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