Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20
“There were fish in the rivers of Eire’, there were animals in her coverts.
Who acts: fish, animals · What happens: be · To what, where: coverts
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 (fish, animals), 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 were | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 were | advcl |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rivers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rivers | det |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fish | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Eire | case |
| 9 | Eire | Eire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rivers | nmod |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 coverts | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coverts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | coverts | covert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | fish in the rivers of Eire | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | animals | Eire's coverts; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in covert=Location |
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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