Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 78
He took his solid, well-balanced sword in his fist, over his left arm his ample, bossy shield, and, with another side-look at Fionn, he left the hall and charged irresistibly into the fray.
Who acts: Goll, side look · What happens: take, balance, leave, charge · To what, where: solid balanced sword, fist, hall, fray
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, side look), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sword | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 balanced | punct |
| 6 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 balanced | discourse |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sword | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fist | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fist | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arm | punct |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arm | amod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shield | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shield | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ample | punct |
| 21 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shield | amod |
| 22 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 look | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 look | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 look | det |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 look | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 side | punct |
| 30 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | nsubj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 Fionn | case |
| 32 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 look | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 look | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hall | det |
| 37 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 charged | cc |
| 39 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | conj |
| 40 | irresistibly | irresistibly | ADV | _ | 39 charged | advmod |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 fray | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fray | det |
| 43 | fray | fray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 charged | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Goll | Goll's solid balanced sword | Goll's fist | over Goll's left arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sword=Theme shield=Destination | ||
| 2 | balance | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | another side look at Fionn | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | another side look at Fionn not said here | the fray | irresistibly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fray=Destination |
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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