Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40
These three returned then, and at the end of a day and night they saw far off the mighty roofs of Tara massed in the morning haze.
Who acts: three, nephews, mighty roofs · What happens: return, see, mass · To what, where: end, morning haze
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 (three, nephews, mighty roofs), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | conj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | parataxis |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 roofs | advmod |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 roofs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roofs | det |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 roofs | amod |
| 21 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 massed | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Tara | case |
| 23 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 roofs | nmod |
| 24 | massed | mass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 haze | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 haze | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 haze | compound |
| 28 | haze | haze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 massed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | this three | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | nephews = nephew | at the end of a day and night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mass | past | the mighty roofs of Tara | the morning haze | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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