Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 40
He pushed the branches of holly aside and marched up to Conaran’s daughters, with Cona’n behind him.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: push, march up · To what, where: branches
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 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 branches | det |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 holly | case |
| 6 | holly | holly | ADV | _ | 4 branches | nmod |
| 7 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marched | cc |
| 9 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pushed | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 marched | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughters | case |
| 12 | Conaran | Conaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Conaran | case |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cona’n | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Cona’n | case |
| 17 | Cona’n | Cona'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | obl |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Cona’n | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Fionn | the branches | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 2 | march up | past | Fionn not said here | to Conaran's daughters result; with Cona’n behind Fionn | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to daughter=Result |
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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