Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 15
As we drew on Ireland from the sea the country seemed like an unending forest.
Who acts: we, country · What happens: draw, seem · To what, where: Ireland
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, country), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seemed | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Ireland | case |
| 5 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | unending | unending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forest | compound |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | we | Ireland | from the sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the country | like a unending forest | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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