Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 65
In a retired corner a gentleman stood in a thoughtful attitude while he tried to pull out a tooth that had been knocked loose.
Who acts: gentleman, two · What happens: retire, stand, try, pull out, knock · To what, where: retired corner, tooth
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 (gentleman, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 corner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 corner | det |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 corner | amod |
| 4 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gentleman | det |
| 6 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 attitude | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 attitude | det |
| 10 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attitude | amod |
| 11 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 tried | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pull | mark |
| 16 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pull | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tooth | det |
| 19 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pull | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 knocked | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 knocked | aux:pass |
| 23 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tooth | acl:relcl |
| 24 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 23 knocked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | participle | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | a gentleman | a retired corner | in a thoughtful attitude | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||
| 3 | try | past | two | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pull out not said to happen | to-infinitive | two not said here | a tooth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | knock | past · perfect · passive | a tooth | loose property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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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