Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 47
Then, setting their minds on Ireland, they went there as it were in a flash.
Who acts: things, mind · What happens: set, go, be, mind · To what, where: minds, Ireland
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, mind), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 setting | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 setting | punct |
| 3 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 minds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 setting | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 setting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 setting | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 flash | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flash | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flash | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flash | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flash | det |
| 17 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | things's minds | Ireland | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme on ireland=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | things = thing | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | mind | as a flash | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | things = thing | nom mind «cognition 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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