Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 4

He walked for a minute up and down the hillock.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: walk

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 minute	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hillock	cc
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 hillock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hillock	det
10	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 up	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Fionn				minute		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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