Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 3
“I stood a while stamping upon a rock, with my bristling head swung high, breathing through wide nostrils all the savour of the world.
Who acts: I, while · What happens: stand, stamp, bristle, swing, breathe, savour · To what, where: rock, bristling head, savour, wide nostrils, world
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, while), 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 | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | stamping | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 while | acl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stamping | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 head | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bristling | bristle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 15 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 head | acl |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 swung | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 breathing | punct |
| 18 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 nostrils | case |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nostrils | amod |
| 21 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 breathing | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 savour | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 savour | det |
| 24 | savour | savour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breathing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 savour | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | I | while | with my bristling head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stamp in a quote | gerund | a while not said here | a rock | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon rock=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bristle in a quote | gerund | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | ||||||
| 4 | swing in a quote | participle | my bristling head not said here | high property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | breathe in a quote | gerund | I not said here | all savour of the world | wide nostrils | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savour=Theme | |||
| 6 | savour in a quote | the world | nom savour «cognition 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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