Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 63
Here were two crouching against each other, looking for a soft place to hit.
Who acts: two · What happens: crouch, look, hit · To what, where: each
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 crouching | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crouching | aux |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 crouching | nsubj |
| 4 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 crouching | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 crouching | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hit | mark |
| 15 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crouching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | past · progressive | two | each; here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | two not said here | for a soft place | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | to-infinitive | two not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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