Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 52
They ran then, the maid moaning and lamenting all the while.
Who acts: trees · What happens: run, moan, lament · To what, where: maid
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 (trees), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maid | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lamenting | cc |
| 9 | lamenting | lament | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 moaning | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 while | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lamenting | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | trees = tree | the maid | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | moan | gerund | trees = tree not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lament | gerund | trees = tree not said here | while | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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