Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 23
Long we lived in ease, and we saw new animals grow,--the bear, the wolf, the badger, the deer, and the boar.
Who acts: we, new animals · What happens: live, see, grow · To what, where: ease, boar, bear · Speech: someone speaks here
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, new 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ease | case |
| 5 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 animals | amod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grow | nsubj |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grow | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wolf | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wolf | det |
| 19 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 badger | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 badger | det |
| 22 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deer | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 deer | det |
| 25 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bear | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 boar | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 boar | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boar | det |
| 29 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | we | ease | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ease=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | we | the boar | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | new animals | the bear and the wolf and the badger and the deer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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