Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 22
The two bulky men turned towards the school of the Fianna.
Who acts: two bulky men · What happens: turn · To what, where: school
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two bulky men), 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 | 4 men | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | bulky | bulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 school | det |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Fianna | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fianna | det |
| 11 | Fianna | Fianna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 school | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the two bulky men | the school of the Fianna | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards school=Trajectory |
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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