Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 1
“THERE I dreamed, and I saw myself changing into a stag in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I arched my neck and braced my powerful limbs.
Who acts: I, myself · What happens: dream, see, change, feel, arch, brace · To what, where: myself, stag, beating, dream, neck, powerful limbs
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 (I, myself), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
| 2 | THERE | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dreamed | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dreamed | nsubj |
| 4 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamed | parataxis |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 stag | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stag | det |
| 13 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changing | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dream | case |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 felt | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dream | case |
| 21 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beating | det |
| 23 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 heart | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 heart | amod |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beating | nmod |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 arched | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 arched | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 dream | case |
| 33 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 arched | obl |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 arched | nsubj |
| 35 | arched | arch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreamed | conj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 arched | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 braced | cc |
| 39 | braced | brace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 arched | conj |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 limbs | amod |
| 42 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 braced | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | past | I | there | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change in a quote | gerund | myself not said here | into a stag result; in dream | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stag=Result | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | past | I | the beating of a new heart | dream | within me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beating=Theme in dream=Location | ||
| 5 | arch in a quote | past | I | my neck | in dream | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in dream=Topic | |||
| 6 | brace in a quote | past | I not said here | my powerful limbs | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | beat in a quote | a new heart | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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