Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 37
“One day I stole from the cave to snatch a mouthful of grass, for I was closely besieged by wolves.
Who acts: lumbering bear, wolves · What happens: steal, snatch, besiege · To what, where: cave, mouthful, lumbering bear
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, wolves), 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 | _ | 5 stole | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stole | nsubj |
| 5 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stole | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 snatch | mark |
| 10 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stole | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouthful | det |
| 12 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snatch | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grass | case |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouthful | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 besieged | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 besieged | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 besieged | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 besieged | aux:pass |
| 19 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 20 besieged | advmod |
| 20 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 snatch | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 wolves | case |
| 22 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 besieged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal in a quote | past | the lumbering bear = bear | the cave | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | snatch in a quote | to-infinitive | the lumbering bear = bear not said here | a mouthful of grass | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Theme | ||||
| 3 | besiege in a quote | past · passive | wolves | the lumbering bear = bear | closely property | tree rules |
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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