Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 26
Art stepped into his coracle, and then, wringing her hands, she made yet an attempt to dissuade him from that drear journey.
Who acts: Art, Morgan · What happens: step, wring, make, dissuade · To what, where: coracle, hands, attempt, Art, drear journey
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art, Morgan), 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 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 coracle | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 coracle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wringing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wringing | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 wringing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wringing | punct |
| 10 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stepped | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wringing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 attempt | det |
| 18 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 dissuade | mark |
| 20 | dissuade | dissuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attempt | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dissuade | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 journey | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 journey | det |
| 24 | drear | drear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 journey | amod |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dissuade | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Art | Art's coracle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into coracle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | Art not said here | Morgan's hands | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | past | Morgan | a attempt | yet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product | |||
| 4 | dissuade | to-infinitive | Morgan not said here | a attempt not said here | Art | that drear journey | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from journey=Eventuality |
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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