Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 29
She stepped into a coracle, it was pushed on the enchanted waters, and it went forward, world within world, until land appeared, and her boat swung in low tide against a rock at the foot of Ben Edair.
Who acts: One, coracle, land, boat · What happens: step, push, enchant, go, appear, swing · To what, where: coracle, enchanted waters, world, low tide
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, coracle, land, boat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1896): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 coracle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coracle | det |
| 5 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | aux:pass |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stepped | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waters | det |
| 12 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 waters | amod |
| 13 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 world | punct |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | within | within | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 world | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appeared | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 appeared | mark |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 swung | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 swung | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swung | nsubj |
| 31 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 tide | case |
| 33 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tide | amod |
| 34 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swung | obl |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 rock | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rock | det |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swung | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 foot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 foot | det |
| 40 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rock | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Ben | case |
| 42 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 foot | nmod |
| 43 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ben | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | One | a coracle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | push | past · passive | coracle | the enchanted waters | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | coracle | world within world | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | appear | past | land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | swing | past | One's boat | low tide | against a rock at the foot of Ben | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tide=Source against rock=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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