Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 58
He drew Crimthann apart, for he withheld no instruction from that lad.
Who acts: King · What happens: draw, withhold · To what, where: Crimthann, instruction, lad
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 (King), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Crimthann | Crimthann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 withheld | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 withheld | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 withheld | nsubj |
| 8 | withheld | withhold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 instruction | det |
| 10 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 withheld | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 lad | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 lad | det |
| 13 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 withheld | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | King | Crimthann | apart property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crimthann=Theme | |||
| 2 | withhold | past | King | no instruction | that lad | 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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