Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
His companion sat at a distance regarding the work with rage and aversion.
Who acts: companion · What happens: sit, regard
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 (companion), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 companion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 work | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distance | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 rage | case |
| 11 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 aversion | cc |
| 13 | aversion | aversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Carl's companion | at a distance regard the work with rage and aversion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | ||||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «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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