Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 70
Goll sat twisted round watching the progress of the brawl critically, and Fionn, sitting opposite, watched Goll.
Who acts: Goll, Fionn, brawl · What happens: sit, twist, watch, progress · To what, where: progress, Goll
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 (Goll, Fionn, brawl), 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 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sat | xcomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 watching | mark |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 twisted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 progress | det |
| 7 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brawl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brawl | det |
| 10 | brawl | brawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 progress | nmod |
| 11 | critically | critically | ADV | _ | 5 watching | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sitting | cc |
| 14 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sitting | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watched | punct |
| 19 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 20 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 watched | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Goll | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | twist | participle | Goll not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | Goll not said here | the progress of the brawl | critically property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme | |||
| 4 | sit | gerund | Fionn | opposite property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | watch | past | Goll not said here | Goll | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goll=Theme | ||||
| 6 | progress | the brawl | nom progress «act 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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