Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 57
He looked appealingly at his brother Art og mac Morna, and that powerful champion flew to his aid and wounded Oscar.
Who acts: Oscar, powerful champion · What happens: look, fly, wound · To what, where: Oscar
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 (Oscar, powerful champion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | appealingly | appealingly | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | compound |
| 8 | og | og | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | compound |
| 9 | mac | mac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | conj |
| 10 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mac | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 champion | det |
| 14 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 champion | amod |
| 15 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 aid | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 aid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wounded | cc |
| 21 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 22 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wounded | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Oscar | at Oscar's brother and Art og mac; appealingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | that powerful champion | to Oscar's aid result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aid=Result | ||||
| 3 | wound | past | that powerful champion not said here | Oscar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus oscar=Experiencer |
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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