Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 12
In a short time the Carl returned with a wild boar which he had run down.
Who acts: Carl · What happens: return, run down · To what, where: wild boar
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 (Carl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Carl | det |
| 6 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 boar | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boar | det |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boar | amod |
| 11 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 run | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 boar | acl:relcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 run | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Carl | time | with a wild boar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run down | past · perfect · passive | a wild boar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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