Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 5

He left the swallows behind as if they were asleep.

Who acts: Carl, swallows · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: swallows

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, swallows), 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	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swallows	det
4	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 left	obj
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	2 left	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asleep	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 left	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Carl	the swallows				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme
2	is	past	swallows = swallow					asleep property	tree rules

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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