Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 21
I went into White Lochlann (Norway) and took it.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, take · To what, where: White Lochlann, eye
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 Lochlann | case |
| 4 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lochlann | amod |
| 5 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 Norway | punct |
| 7 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lochlann | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 Norway | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | White Lochlann | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lochlann=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I not said here | eye | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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