Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1
As each man came out of the cave he gave a jump and a shout; the courage of the world went into him and he felt that he could fight twenty.
Who acts: man, courage · What happens: come out, give, go, feel, fight · To what, where: jump, twenty
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, courage), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 man | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 gave | mark |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jump | det |
| 12 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shout | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shout | det |
| 15 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jump | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 courage | det |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 courage | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 felt | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 fight | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fight | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 fight | aux |
| 31 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 felt | ccomp |
| 32 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 fight | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | each man | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | give | past | man | a jump and a shout | of the cave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | the courage of the world | into man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | courage | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fight | could | courage | twenty | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Co-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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