Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 44
Five miles from Ben Edair the Carl stopped, for he had again come among blackberries.
Who acts: Five miles, Carl · What happens: stop, come · To what, where: blackberries
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 (Five miles, Carl), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 miles | nummod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Ben | case |
| 4 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 miles | nmod |
| 5 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ben | flat |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Carl | det |
| 7 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stopped | nsubj |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 stopped | conj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 blackberries | case |
| 16 | blackberries | blackberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Five miles from Ben | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Carl | blackberries | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among blackberry=Location |
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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