Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 39
Fionn closed his eyes and beat away the anger that was rising within him.
Who acts: Fionn, anger · What happens: close, beat away, rise · To what, where: eyes, anger
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, anger), 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 closed | nsubj |
| 2 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 closed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beat | cc |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 closed | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 beat | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 anger | det |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rising | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rising | aux |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 anger | acl:relcl |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rising | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | Fionn | Fionn's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat away | infinitive | Fionn not said here | the anger | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anger=Theme | |||
| 3 | rise | past · progressive | the anger | within Fionn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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