Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher, sentence 28
“It is Cael of the Iron carrying the Carl on his back,” he groaned.
Who acts: back, Cael · What happens: be, carry, groan · To what, where: Cael, Carl, back
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. “What do you see?” Fionn demanded of the watcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, Cael), 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 | _ | 4 Cael | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Cael | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Cael | cop |
| 4 | Cael | Cael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 groaned | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Iron | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Iron | det |
| 7 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cael | nmod |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Cael | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Carl | det |
| 10 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cael | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cael | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 groaned | nsubj |
| 17 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | back | Cael | of the Iron | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry in a quote | gerund | Cael not said here | the Carl | man's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carl=Theme | |||
| 3 | groan | past | Cael | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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