Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 56
These two encountered then, and Oscar knocked a groan of distress out of Cona’n.
Who acts: two, Oscar, distress · What happens: encounter, knock, groan · To what, where: groan, Cona’n
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, Oscar, distress), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 encountered | nsubj |
| 3 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 encountered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knocked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knocked | cc |
| 7 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knocked | nsubj |
| 8 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 encountered | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 groan | det |
| 10 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knocked | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 distress | case |
| 12 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 groan | nmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 Cona’n | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Cona’n | case |
| 15 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knocked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | this two | then | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | Oscar | a groan of distress | Cona’n | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent groan=Theme out cona'n=Destination | |||
| 3 | groan | distress | nom groan «communication intransitive»: of=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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