Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 11
The uncanny, misbehaved, and outrageous harridans advanced then to meet the son of Morna, and when he saw these three Goll whipped the sword from his thigh, swung his buckler round, and got to them in ten great leaps.
Who acts: Iaran, outrageous harridans, three · What happens: misbehave, meet, see, whip, swing, get · To what, where: son, sword, thigh, buckler, harridans, ten great leaps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iaran, outrageous harridans, three), 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 uncanny | det |
| 2 | uncanny | uncanny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saw | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 misbehaved | punct |
| 4 | misbehaved | misbehave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 uncanny | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 meet | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meet | cc |
| 7 | outrageous | outrageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harridans | amod |
| 8 | harridans | harridan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 9 | advanced | advanced | ADV | _ | 12 meet | advmod |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 meet | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 uncanny | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Morna | case |
| 16 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 three | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 whipped | nsubj |
| 24 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 whipped | nsubj |
| 25 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sword | det |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 whipped | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 thigh | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 30 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 whipped | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swung | punct |
| 32 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | parataxis |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 buckler | nmod:poss |
| 34 | buckler | buckler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swung | obj |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 32 swung | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 got | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 got | cc |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 swung | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 leaps | case |
| 42 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 leaps | nummod |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 leaps | amod |
| 44 | leaps | leap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 got | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | misbehave | participle | Iaran not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | outrageous harridans | the son of Morna | then | advanced property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | see | past | Iaran | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | whip | past | this three | the sword | Iaran's thigh | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent sword=Material | |||
| 5 | swing | past | Iaran's buckler | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent buckler=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | past | harridans = harridan | ten great leaps | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result |
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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