Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 38
They made their rush, and I barely escaped from them.
Who acts: grasses, I · What happens: make, escape, rush · To what, where: rush
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 (grasses, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 rush | nmod:poss |
| 4 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 escaped | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 escaped | nsubj |
| 8 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 9 escaped | advmod |
| 9 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escaped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | grasses = grass | grasses's rush | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product | ||||
| 2 | escape | past | I | from grasses = grass; barely property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rush | grasses = grass | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=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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