Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 14
Fiachna Fim was also sitting in a tree, very high up, and he was disconsolate.
Who acts: Fiachna, terror · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: tree
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 (Fiachna, terror), 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 | Fiachna | Fiachna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | Fim | Fim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fiachna | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disconsolate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 disconsolate | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 disconsolate | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disconsolate | cop |
| 17 | disconsolate | disconsolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sitting | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Fiachna | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | terror | disconsolate property | tree rules |
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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