Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 35
A snarl went over the huge face of the monster and she leaped forward again, but she met Goll’s point in the road; it went through her, and in another moment Goll took her head from its shoulders and swung it on high before Fionn.
Who acts: snarl, point, Goll · What happens: go, leap, meet, take, swing, point · To what, where: huge face, point, road, head, shoulders, high
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 (snarl, point, Goll), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 snarl | det |
| 2 | snarl | snarl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 face | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 face | amod |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 monster | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monster | det |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaped | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaped | nsubj |
| 13 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 leaped | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 leaped | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 met | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 point | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Goll | case |
| 22 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 took | cc |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 moment | case |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 moment | det |
| 35 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obl |
| 36 | Goll | Goll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 moment | appos |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 shoulders | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 42 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 took | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 swung | cc |
| 44 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 swung | obj |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 high | case |
| 47 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 swung | obl |
| 48 | before | before | ADP | _ | 49 Fionn | case |
| 49 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 swung | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a snarl | the huge face of the monster | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over face=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leap | past | snarl | again | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | snarl | Goll's point | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | go | past | point | through snarl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past | point not said here | snarl's head | point's shoulders | moment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | swing | past | point not said here | point | high | before Fionn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on high=Source before fionn=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | point | Goll | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=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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