Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 7
“Lunged like a bull.”
What happens: lunge
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lunged | punct |
| 2 | Lunged | lunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 bull | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bull | det |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lunged | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lunged | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lunge in a quote | participle | like a bull | 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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