Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 48
Becfola followed the pointing finger, and saw below a large black mass that moved jerkily forward.
Who acts: Becfola, large black mass · What happens: follow, see, move · To what, where: pointing finger, large black mass
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 (Becfola, large black mass), 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 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 finger | det |
| 4 | pointing | pointing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finger | compound |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | below | below | ADP | _ | 13 mass | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mass | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mass | amod |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mass | amod |
| 13 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mass | acl:relcl |
| 16 | jerkily | jerkily | ADV | _ | 17 forward | advmod |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 moved | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Becfola | the pointing finger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a large black mass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | move | past | a large black mass | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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