Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 7
He saw black seals that stared and barked and dived dancingly, with the round turn of a bow and the forward onset of an arrow.
Who acts: duty, black seals · What happens: see, stare, bark, dive · To what, where: black seals
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 (duty, black seals), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seals | amod |
| 4 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stared | nsubj |
| 6 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seals | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 barked | cc |
| 8 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stared | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dived | cc |
| 10 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stared | conj |
| 11 | dancingly | dancingly | ADV | _ | 10 dived | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turn | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 turn | det |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 turn | amod |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bow | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bow | det |
| 19 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turn | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 onset | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 onset | det |
| 22 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 onset | amod |
| 23 | onset | onset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bow | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 arrow | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 arrow | det |
| 26 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 onset | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | duty | black seals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | black seals | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bark | past | black seals not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dive | past | black seals not said here | with the round turn of a bow and the forward onset of a arrow; dancingly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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