Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 23
The young man leaped from his couch, girded on his harness, and strode out.
Who acts: young man · What happens: leap, gird, stride out · To what, where: young man, couch, harness
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strode | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 couch | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 couch | nmod:poss |
| 7 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 girded | punct |
| 9 | girded | gird | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 couch | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 harness | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 harness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strode | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strode | cc |
| 15 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 strode | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the young man not said here | man's couch | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from couch=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | gird | participle | man's couch not said here | man's harness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stride out | past | the young man | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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