Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 13
Fionn looked up at the sky and found that it was still there.
Who acts: Fionn, sky · What happens: look up, find, be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, sky), 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 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 there | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 there | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 there | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 found | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Fionn | at the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Fionn not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sky | still | there 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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