Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 30
Goll then strode forward to the fight, and the hag moved against him with equal alacrity.
Who acts: Goll, hag · What happens: stride, move · To what, where: fight
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 (Goll, hag), 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 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strode | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 strode | advmod |
| 3 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 strode | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moved | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hag | det |
| 11 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | conj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 moved | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 alacrity | case |
| 16 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 alacrity | amod |
| 17 | alacrity | alacrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Goll | the fight | then | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fight=Destination | ||
| 2 | move | past | the hag | against Goll; with equal alacrity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against he=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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