Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8
Trotting by the side of Cael, the Carl thrust a hand into the tail of his coat and pulled out a fistfull of red bones.
Who acts: Trotting · What happens: trot, pull out · To what, where: hand, tail, fistfull
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 (Trotting), 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 | Trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pulled | csubj:pass |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trotting | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Cael | case |
| 6 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrust | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thrust | det |
| 9 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thrust | compound |
| 10 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cael | appos |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trotting | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tail | det |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trotting | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tail | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulled | cc |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pulled | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fistfull | det |
| 23 | fistfull | fistfull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulled | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bones | case |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bones | amod |
| 26 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fistfull | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | gerund | a hand | the tail of Cael's coat | by the side of Cael | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme by side=Trajectory into tail=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pull out | participle | Trotting | a fistfull of red bones | 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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