Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 19
Then for the first time he felt secure and at liberty to play chess.
Who acts: friend · What happens: feel, play · To what, where: chess
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 felt | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 liberty | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 liberty | case |
| 11 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 play | mark |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 liberty | acl |
| 14 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 play | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | friend | then; time | secure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | friend not said here | chess | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=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.
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