Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 12
When he awoke in the morning he looked out of a lofty window, and he saw on the sunny lawn before the palace a herd of cows.
Who acts: Mongan · What happens: awake, look out, see · To what, where: lofty window, sunny lawn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 window | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 12 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 window | amod |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 lawn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lawn | det |
| 20 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lawn | amod |
| 21 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 herd | det |
| 26 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cows | case |
| 28 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 herd | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Mongan | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look out | past | Mongan | a lofty window | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Mongan | the sunny lawn | before the palace and a herd of cows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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