Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 40
He again caught up on Cael, who was running with his head down and his toes up.
Who acts: steam, Cael · What happens: catch up, run · To what, where: Cael
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 (steam, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 caught | advmod |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Cael | case |
| 6 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 running | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 running | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 running | aux |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Cael | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 toes | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 toes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Cael | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | steam | Cael and steam's toes | again | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | run | past · progressive | Cael and steam's toes | with steam's head; down property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with head=Material |
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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