Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 6

He caught up on a red deer, jumped over it, and left it standing.

Who acts: Carl, deer · What happens: catch up, jump, leave, stand · To what, where: red deer, deer

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, deer), 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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 caught	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 deer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deer	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deer	amod
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 jumped	punct
9	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jumped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 left	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	catch up	past	Carl		a red deer	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	jump	past	Carl not said here		deer	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
3	leave	past	Carl not said here	deer		tree rules
4	stand	gerund	deer not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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