Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XV, sentence 40
Mongan snatched at the book as it fell from Tibraide’s hand.
Who acts: Mongan, Da’v · What happens: snatch, fall · To what, where: book, hand
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, Da’v), 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 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 snatched | nsubj |
| 2 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snatched | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 fell | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 snatched | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 10 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Tibraide | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | Mongan | the book | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Da’v = da'v | Tibraide's hand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location |
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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