Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 12
He picked himself up and ran, and was knocked down, and ran again blindly, butting into trees and stones.
Who acts: bear · What happens: pick up, run, knock down, butt · To what, where: bear, trees
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 picked | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knocked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knocked | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knocked | aux:pass |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 picked | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 knocked | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 butting | punct |
| 18 | butting | butt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ran | advcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 butting | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stones | cc |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trees | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | bear | bear | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run | past | bear not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | knock down | past · passive | bear not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» | |||||
| 4 | run | past | bear not said here | again | blindly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | butt | gerund | bear not said here | trees and stones | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Location |
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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