Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1
Having gone some distance by these pleasant ways he saw a shapely house dozing in the sunlight.
Who acts: he, shapely house · What happens: go, see, doze · To what, where: distance, shapely house, sunlight
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, shapely house), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gone | aux |
| 2 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 distance | det |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gone | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 ways | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 ways | det |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ways | amod |
| 8 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gone | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ways | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | shapely | shapely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | dozing | doze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 house | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sunlight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunlight | det |
| 17 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dozing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund · perfect | some distance | by this pleasant ways | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he | a shapely house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | doze | gerund | a shapely house not said here | the sunlight | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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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