Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 10
A wind carried me the tang of wolf, and against that smell I stared and stamped.
Who acts: wind, I · What happens: carry, stare, stamp · To what, where: me
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 (wind, I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tang | det |
| 6 | tang | tang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wolf | case |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tang | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stared | cc |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 smell | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 smell | det |
| 13 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stared | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stared | nsubj |
| 15 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stamped | cc |
| 17 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stared | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | a wind | me | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary tang=Value | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | I | against that smell | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent against smell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stamp | past | I not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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