Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19
A young girl stepped from it and walked to him among black boulders and patches of yellow sand.
Who acts: young girl · What happens: step, walk · To what, where: shore, Ireland
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stepped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walked | obl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 boulders | case |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boulders | amod |
| 13 | boulders | boulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 patches | cc |
| 15 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boulders | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sand | case |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sand | amod |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patches | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | a young girl | shore | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | a young girl not said here | Ireland | among black boulders and patches of yellow sand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=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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