Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 3
Then with a great rattling of the boar’s bones he started.
Who acts: Carl, bones · What happens: start, rattle
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carl, bones), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 started | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 rattling | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rattling | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rattling | amod |
| 5 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boar | det |
| 8 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 boar | case |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rattling | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Carl | then | with a great rattling of the boar's bones | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rattling=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | rattle | the boar's bones | nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=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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