Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 9
In a spot between three great oaks she came upon a man who was roasting a wild boar over a fire.
Who acts: danger, man · What happens: come, roast · To what, where: spot, wild boar, fire
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 (danger, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 spot | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 oaks | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 oaks | nummod |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 oaks | amod |
| 7 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spot | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 roasting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 roasting | aux |
| 15 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boar | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boar | amod |
| 18 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roasting | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roasting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | danger | a spot between three great oaks | upon a man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location | |||
| 2 | roast | past · progressive | a man | a wild boar | a fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boar=Patient |
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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