Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19
Fionn and the champions looked on this gentleman, and they admired exceedingly his bearing and equipment.
Who acts: Fionn, watchers · What happens: look, admire · To what, where: bearing
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, watchers), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 champions | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 champions | det |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fionn | conj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 gentleman | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 gentleman | det |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 admired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 admired | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 admired | nsubj |
| 12 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 13 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 12 admired | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 admired | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 equipment | cc |
| 17 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bearing | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Fionn and the champions | on this gentleman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on gentleman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | watchers = watcher | gentleman's bearing and equipment | exceedingly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bearing=Stimulus |
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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