Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 18
These two set out then for Munster, and as the sun was setting they reached Slieve Luachra and prepared to spend the night there.
Who acts: sun, way · What happens: set out, set, reach, spend · To what, where: These, Slieve
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, way), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Munster | case |
| 7 | Munster | Munster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 setting | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 setting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 setting | aux |
| 14 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 reached | advcl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 17 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 18 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Slieve | flat |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prepared | cc |
| 20 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reached | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spend | mark |
| 22 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 prepared | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spend | obj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 spend | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle · passive | These | then | for Munster | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | way | Slieve | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent slieve=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | way not said here | there | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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