Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 28
And then turning to the magicians:
What happens: turn · To what, where: magicians
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turning | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turning | advmod |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 magicians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magicians | det |
| 6 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turning | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the magicians | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to magician=Trajectory |
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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