Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10
Small fish came sliding and flickering, and all the outlandish creatures of the deep rose by his bobbing craft and swirled and sped away.
Who acts: Small fish, fish · What happens: come, slide, flicker, bob, swirl, speed away · To what, where: outlandish creatures
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small fish, fish), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sliding | slide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flickering | cc |
| 6 | flickering | flicker | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sliding | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 creatures | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 creatures | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 creatures | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creatures | det |
| 11 | outlandish | outlandish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creatures | amod |
| 12 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rose | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rose | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rose | amod |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creatures | nmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 craft | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 craft | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 craft | amod |
| 20 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creatures | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 swirled | cc |
| 22 | swirled | swirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 craft | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sped | cc |
| 24 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 swirled | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 sped | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Small fish | all outlandish creatures of the deep rose by fish's bobbing craft | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slide | gerund | Small fish not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flicker | gerund | Small fish not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bob | gerund | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | swirl | participle | Small fish not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | speed away | participle | Small fish not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | craft | fish | nom craft «act 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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