Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 18
“We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest.
Who acts: We, rumble, water · What happens: land, hear, go, rumble · To what, where: rumble, darkness
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, rumble, water), 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 landed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 landed | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rumble | det |
| 8 | rumble | rumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rumble | nmod |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 heard | xcomp |
| 12 | gloomily | gloomily | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 darkness | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 darkness | det |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 darkness | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land in a quote | past | We | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | we | the rumble of water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | the rumble of water not said here | the darkness of the forest | gloomily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through darkness=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | rumble in a quote | water | nom rumble «event intransitive»: of=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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