Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 43
He had a woman runner, a marvel for swiftness and trust.
Who acts: Goll · What happens: have · To what, where: woman runner
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 (Goll), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 runner | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runner | compound |
| 5 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 marvel | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 marvel | det |
| 8 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runner | appos |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 swiftness | case |
| 10 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marvel | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trust | cc |
| 12 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swiftness | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Goll | a woman runner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=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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