Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
Cael of the Iron came also on the scene, and he examined the stranger with close and particular attention.
Who acts: Cael · What happens: come, examine · To what, where: scene, stranger
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 (Cael), 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 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Iron | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Iron | det |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cael | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 scene | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 scene | det |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 examined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 examined | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 examined | nsubj |
| 13 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stranger | det |
| 15 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examined | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 attention | case |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 attention | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 particular | cc |
| 19 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 close | conj |
| 20 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 examined | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Cael of the Iron | the scene | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scene=Location | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | Cael | the stranger | with close attention | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/50/2/