Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 22
The High King uncovered his eyes and saw that a woman had approached driving a cow before her.
Who acts: High King, woman · What happens: uncover, see, approach, drive · To what, where: eyes, cow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High King, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 uncovered | nsubj |
| 4 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 uncovered | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncovered | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 approached | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 approached | aux |
| 13 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 approached | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 driving | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 driving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | past | the High King | King's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the High King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | approach | past · perfect | a woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drive | gerund | a woman not said here | a cow | before cow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cow=Theme before she=Destination |
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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