Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 21
But at this hour a wise person leaves engagements to the bats and the staring owls and the round-eyed creatures that prowl and sniff in the dark.
Who acts: wise person, eyed creatures · What happens: leave, prowl, sniff · To what, where: engagements, bats
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise person, eyed creatures), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 leaves | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaves | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaves | nsubj |
| 8 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | engagements | engagement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaves | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bats | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bats | det |
| 12 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaves | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 owls | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owls | det |
| 15 | staring | staring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 owls | compound |
| 16 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bats | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 creatures | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 creatures | det |
| 19 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyed | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 round | punct |
| 21 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 22 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bats | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 prowl | nsubj |
| 24 | prowl | prowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sniff | cc |
| 26 | sniff | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 prowl | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 dark | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dark | det |
| 29 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sniff | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a wise person | engagements | the bats and the staring owls and the eyed creatures | hour | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent engagement=Theme to bat=Recipient | ||
| 2 | prowl | present | the eyed creatures | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sniff | present | the eyed creatures not said here | in the dark | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=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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