Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 26
The king pulled himself up on the branch again and sat dangle-legged on it to see what the warrior would do.
Who acts: king, warrior · What happens: pull up, sit, leg, see, do · To what, where: king, branch, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, warrior), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 pulled | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 12 | dangle | dangle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 legged | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dangle | punct |
| 14 | legged | leg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sat | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sat | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 warrior | det |
| 21 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | the king | king | the branch | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | sit | past | the king not said here | heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leg | participle | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | would | the warrior | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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