Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. “Tell on, my love,” Finnian murmured, sentence 21
“The night came, and with it a thousand darknesses fell from the screeching sky.
Who acts: night, frightened · What happens: come, fall, screech · To what, where: screeching sky
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 (night, frightened), 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 came | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 darknesses | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 darknesses | nummod |
| 11 | darknesses | darkness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 it | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 15 | screeching | screech | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 sky | amod |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | frightened | the screeching sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | screech in a quote | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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