Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28
Fionn sat rigid and unmoving, his face stony and terrible as the face of a monument carved on the side of a cliff.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: sit, unmov, carve · To what, where: monument, side
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 (Fionn), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rigid | rigid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 unmoving | cc |
| 5 | unmoving | unmov | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rigid | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stony | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stony | nsubj |
| 9 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 terrible | cc |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stony | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 terrible | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 monument | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 monument | det |
| 17 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 face | nmod |
| 18 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 monument | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carved | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cliff | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cliff | det |
| 24 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Fionn | rigid property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | unmov | gerund | Fionn not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carve | participle | a monument not said here | the side of a cliff | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
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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