Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 24
The lumbering bear swung his head of hesitations and thought again; he trotted his small red eye away with him to a near-by brake.
Who acts: lumbering bear, bear · What happens: swing, think, trot · To what, where: head, small red eye, near brake
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 (lumbering bear, bear), 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 bear | det |
| 2 | lumbering | lumbering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | 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 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hesitations | case |
| 8 | hesitations | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 head | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swung | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 thought | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 trotted | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trotted | nsubj |
| 14 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swung | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eye | amod |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eye | amod |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trotted | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 trotted | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trotted | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 brake | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 brake | det |
| 24 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brake | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 brake | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 brake | case |
| 27 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trotted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | the lumbering bear | bear's head of hesitations | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the lumbering bear not said here | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trot | past | bear | bear's small red eye | a near brake | with wolf; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to brake=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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