Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 22
But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground.
What happens: blush, leap · To what, where: terrible sight, ground
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 blushed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sight | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blushed | obl |
| 6 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mae | compound |
| 7 | mae | mae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | conj |
| 8 | Morna | Morna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mae | appos |
| 9 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 9 blushed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 leaped | cc |
| 12 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blushed | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 blushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | that terrible sight and Goll mae | deeply property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ground=Trajectory |
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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