Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 5
Becfola pushed the door of the king’s sleeping chamber and entered noiselessly.
Who acts: Becfola · What happens: push, sleep, enter · To what, where: door, chamber
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 (Becfola), 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 | Becfola | Becfola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleeping | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 entered | cc |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | conj |
| 13 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 12 entered | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Becfola | the door of the king | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | present · progressive | Becfola not said here | chamber | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Becfola not said here | noiselessly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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