Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 8
Mongan and his companions stepped from the world of storm into sunshine and a scented world.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: step, scent · To what, where: world
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 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 companions | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mongan | conj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 storm | case |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 world | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sunshine | case |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 world | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sunshine | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Mongan and Faery's companions | the world of storm | into sunshine and a scented world | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sunshine=Destination | |||
| 2 | scent | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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