Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 21

They loved to hear him when he sang who now wanders in the forest with a tusky herd.’”

Who acts: men, eye · What happens: love, hear, sing, wander · To what, where: eye, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, eye), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hear	mark
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loved	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 sang	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	advcl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wanders	nsubj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 wanders	advmod
11	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sang	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanders	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 herd	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 herd	det
17	tusky	tusky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 herd	amod
18	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanders	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	men = man					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	eye				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	past	eye					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wander	present			the forest	now	with a tusky herd	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory

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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