Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14
He stared to one side and saw the trees of Kyle Conor waving in the distance.
Who acts: Fionn, trees · What happens: stare, see, wave · To what, where: trees
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, trees), 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 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stared | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kyle | case |
| 11 | Kyle | Kyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trees | nmod |
| 12 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Kyle | flat |
| 13 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 trees | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Fionn | to one side | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Fionn not said here | the trees of Kyle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | the trees of Kyle not said here | in the distance | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in distance=Theme |
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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