Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10
One morning, when not even a bird was astir, the king felt that his dear companion was rising.
Who acts: bird, king, dear companion · What happens: be, feel, rise
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, king, dear companion), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 astir | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 astir | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bird | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 bird | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 astir | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 astir | cop |
| 10 | astir | astir | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 rising | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 companion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 companion | amod |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rising | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rising | aux |
| 20 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 felt | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a bird | astir property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the king | morning | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rise | past · progressive | king's dear companion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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