Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 16
It was he, however, who awakened the Carl in the morning.
Who acts: two, Cael · What happens: be, awaken · To what, where: Cael, Carl
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 (two, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 he | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 he | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awakened | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 he | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 awakened | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 awakened | nsubj |
| 8 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Carl | det |
| 10 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 awakened | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awakened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | two | Cael | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past | Cael | the Carl | morning | however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carl=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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