Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 40
They set out southwards from Tara into the Duffry of Leinster, and after some time they came into wild country and went astray.
Who acts: landmarks · What happens: set out, come, go · To what, where: Tara, wild country
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 (landmarks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | southwards | southwards | ADV | _ | 2 set | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Tara | case |
| 6 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 Duffry | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Duffry | det |
| 9 | Duffry | Duffry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Leinster | case |
| 11 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Duffry | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 24 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 went | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | landmarks = landmark | Tara | into the Duffry of Leinster; southwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tara=Initial_Location into duffry=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | landmarks = landmark | wild country | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | landmarks = landmark not said here | astray property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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