Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 1
The instant they passed the holly a strange weakness came over the heroes.
Who acts: instant, strange weakness · What happens: pass, come · To what, where: holly, heroes
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant, strange weakness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 instant | det |
| 2 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 holly | det |
| 6 | holly | holly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weakness | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weakness | amod |
| 9 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 heroes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heroes | det |
| 13 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the instant | the holly | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme holly=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a strange weakness | the heroes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hero=Initial_Location |
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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