Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 5
Then, as by chance, he stepped down the sloping end of the mound and stood with his mouth open, staring.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: step down, slope, stand, stare · To what, where: sloping end
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1758): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 chance | mark |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 chance | case |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chance | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stepped | nsubj |
| 8 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 11 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 end | amod |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stepped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mound | det |
| 15 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stepped | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stood | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 staring | punct |
| 23 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stood | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | Fionn | the sloping end of the mound | then | by chance | tree rules | ||
| 2 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | Fionn not said here | with Fionn's mouth; open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stare | gerund | Fionn not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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