Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 41
“In running alone,” Fionn continued thoughtfully, “we have a notable champion, Caelte mac Rona’n.”
Who acts: Fionn, we · What happens: run, continue, have · To what, where: notable champion
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, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 2 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 running | mark |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 running | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
| 7 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 8 continued | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 champion | det |
| 15 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 champion | amod |
| 16 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mac | punct |
| 18 | Caelte | Caelte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mac | compound |
| 19 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 champion | appos |
| 20 | Rona’n | Rona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mac | flat |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run in a quote | gerund | Fionn not said here | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | Fionn | thoughtfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | a notable champion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=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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