Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 3
“I slept, and I saw myself changing into a boar in dream, and I felt in dream the beating of a new heart within me, and in dream I stretched my powerful neck and braced my eager limbs.
Who acts: I, myself · What happens: sleep, see, change, feel, stretch, brace · To what, where: myself, boar, beating, dream, powerful neck, eager limbs
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 (I, myself), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 boar | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boar | det |
| 12 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changing | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beating | det |
| 22 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 heart | amod |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beating | nmod |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stretched | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stretched | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 dream | case |
| 32 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stretched | obl |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 stretched | nsubj |
| 34 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | advcl |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 36 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 neck | amod |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stretched | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 braced | cc |
| 39 | braced | brace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 stretched | conj |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 limbs | amod |
| 42 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 braced | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep in a quote | past | I | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | I | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change in a quote | gerund | myself not said here | into a boar result; in dream | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into boar=Result | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | past | I | the beating of a new heart | dream | within me | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beating=Theme in dream=Location | ||
| 5 | stretch in a quote | past | I | my powerful neck | in dream | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in dream=Topic | |||
| 6 | brace in a quote | past | I not said here | my eager limbs | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | beat in a quote | a new heart | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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