Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 51
“We will climb them and sit among the branches.”
Who acts: We · What happens: climb, sit · To what, where: trees, branches
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 (We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sit | cc |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | conj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 branches | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branches | det |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb in a quote | future | We | trees = tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present | We not said here | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among branch=Location |
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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