Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 36
“Master,” said mac an Da’v as the troop drew abreast and moved past.
Who acts: Master, troop · What happens: say, mac, draw, move · To what, where: Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, troop), 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 | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mac | mac | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Da’v | det |
| 8 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mac | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 drew | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 troop | det |
| 11 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mac | advcl |
| 13 | abreast | abreast | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moved | cc |
| 15 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 16 | past | past | ADV | _ | 15 moved | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mac | infinitive | a Da’v | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | the troop | abreast property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | move | past | the troop not said here | past property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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