Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 52
The two then fell into grips, and went lurching and punching about the great hall.
Who acts: two · What happens: fall, go, lurch, punch · To what, where: grips
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 (two), 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 | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 grips | case |
| 6 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | lurching | lurch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 went | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 punching | cc |
| 12 | punching | punch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lurching | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hall | amod |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 punching | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the two | then | into grips result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into grip=Result | |||
| 2 | go | past | the two not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lurch | gerund | the two not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | punch | gerund | the two not said here | about the great hall | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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