Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 21
And he swung his buckler forward and stretched his right hand to the sword.
Who acts: Fionn · What happens: swing, stretch · To what, where: buckler, right hand
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 (Fionn), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 swung | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swung | nsubj |
| 3 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 buckler | nmod:poss |
| 5 | buckler | buckler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swung | obj |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 swung | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stretched | cc |
| 8 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swung | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | Fionn | Fionn's buckler | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent buckler=Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | Fionn not said here | Fionn's right hand | to the sword result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to sword=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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