Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 16
“A storm arose, and when I looked again from my tall cliff I saw that great fleet rolling as in a giant’s hand.
Who acts: storm, Finnian, great fleet · What happens: arise, look, see, roll · To what, where: great fleet
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 (storm, Finnian, great fleet), 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 arose | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 looked | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 cliff | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cliff | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cliff | amod |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cliff | acl:relcl |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fleet | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fleet | amod |
| 19 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fleet | acl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 giant | det |
| 24 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 giant | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise in a quote | past | a storm | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | Finnian | again | from my tall cliff | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from cliff=Theme | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Finnian | that great fleet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | roll in a quote | gerund | that great fleet not said here | as a giant's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/6/16/