Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 18
These I did not chase, and when they chased me I fled.
Who acts: These, men, I · What happens: not chase, chase, flee · To what, where: me
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 (These, men, I), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 chase | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 chase | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chase | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 chase | advmod |
| 5 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fled | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 chased | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | nsubj |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fled | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chase | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not chase | past · do-support | These | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chase | past | men = man | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | I | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/8/18/