Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 38
They set out then briskly and joyfully on the homeward journey, and in due time they reached Tara of the Kings.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: set out, reach · To what, where: Tara
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 briskly | advmod |
| 5 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 set | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 journey | cc |
| 7 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 11 journey | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 journey | det |
| 10 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | compound |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 briskly | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reached | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 19 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kings | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kings | det |
| 22 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Tara | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | eyes = eye | briskly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | eyes = eye | Tara of the Kings | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tara=Theme |
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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