Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3
It was a deeply scooped, hollow way, and it ran or wriggled through the entire length of the wood.
Who acts: path · What happens: scoop, run, wriggle · To what, where: path, entire length
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 (path), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scooped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scooped | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scooped | det |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 scooped | advmod |
| 5 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scooped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scooped | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 wriggled | cc |
| 14 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ran | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 length | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 length | det |
| 17 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 length | amod |
| 18 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wriggled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 length | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop | past · passive | path | hollow way obl; deeply property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wriggle | participle | path not said here | the entire length of the wood | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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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