Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2
In a few minutes Fionn stood up from his place on the mound.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: stand up · To what, where: place
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stood | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mound | det |
| 13 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Fionn | Fionn's place on the mound | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/58/2/