Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 20
When they had gone a little distance they came to a grove of ancient trees.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: go, come · To what, where: little distance
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 distance | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 grove | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grove | det |
| 12 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grove | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Mongan | a little distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Mongan | a little distance not said here | to a grove of ancient trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
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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