Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 12
“My heart leaped for joy when I saw the great fleet rounding the land, and I followed them along scarped cliffs, leaping from rock to rock like a wild goat, while the ships tacked and swung seeking a harbour.
Who acts: heart, Finnian, great fleet, couples, ships · What happens: leap, see, round, follow, scarp, tack · To what, where: great fleet, land, cliffs, rock, harbour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Finnian, great fleet, couples), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaped | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaped | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fleet | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fleet | amod |
| 12 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | rounding | round | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 fleet | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rounding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 followed | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 followed | nsubj |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaped | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 scarped | nsubj |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 22 scarped | advmod |
| 22 | scarped | scarp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 followed | ccomp |
| 23 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scarped | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leaping | punct |
| 25 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 scarped | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaping | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 rock | case |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaping | obl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 goat | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 goat | det |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 goat | amod |
| 33 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rock | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tacked | punct |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 tacked | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ships | det |
| 37 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 tacked | nsubj |
| 38 | tacked | tack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 scarped | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 swung | cc |
| 40 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 tacked | conj |
| 41 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 swung | xcomp |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 harbour | det |
| 43 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seeking | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap in a quote | participle | My heart | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | Finnian | the great fleet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | round in a quote | gerund | the great fleet not said here | the land | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent land=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | past | Finnian | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | scarp in a quote | past | couples = couple | cliffs | along property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | leap in a quote | gerund | couples = couple not said here | rock | to rock like a wild goat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to rock=Destination | |||
| 7 | tack in a quote | past | the ships | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | swing in a quote | past | the ships not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | seek in a quote | gerund | the ships not said here | a harbour | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=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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