Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 16
He looked from the cows then, and saw that the King of Leinster was at his side.
Who acts: Mongan, King · What happens: look, see, be · To what, where: side
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, King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 cows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cows | det |
| 5 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 looked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 side | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 side | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Leinster | case |
| 14 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 side | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Mongan | then | from the cows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from cow=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Mongan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the King of Leinster | Mongan's side | tree rules |
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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