Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 15
But Cael lay out on the side of the hill, and if he went to sleep that night he slept fasting.
Who acts: Cael · What happens: lie out, go, sleep, fast · To what, where: side, night
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 2 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 lay | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slept | nsubj |
| 21 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 night | acl:relcl |
| 22 | fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 slept | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie out | past | Cael | the side of the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | Cael | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Cael not said here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Cael | that night not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fast | gerund | Cael not said here | tree rules |
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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