Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 8
“Long I stood there, ringing my iron hoof on stone, and learning all things through my nose.
Who acts: Long · What happens: stand, ring, learn · To what, where: iron hoof, stone, things, nose
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 (Long), 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 | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ringing | punct |
| 7 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hoof | compound |
| 10 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ringing | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ringing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 learning | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 learning | cc |
| 15 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ringing | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 things | det |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 learning | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 nose | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 learning | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | Long | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ring in a quote | gerund | Long not said here | my iron hoof | stone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hoof=Theme | |||
| 3 | learn in a quote | gerund | Long not said here | all things | my nose | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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