Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 15
Then Mongan opened his eyes and he saw Duv Laca, and he made a great bound to her and took her in his arms, and mac an Da’v made a savage and vicious and terrible jump at the attendant, and took her in his arms, and bit her ear and kissed her neck and wept down into her back.
Who acts: Mongan, Da’v · What happens: open, see, make, take, mac, bite · To what, where: eyes, Duv, great bound, Kevin, arms, savage jump
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 9 | Duv | Duv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | Laca | Laca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Duv | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bound | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bound | amod |
| 17 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mac | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mac | cc |
| 28 | mac | mac | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | parataxis |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Da’v | det |
| 30 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 mac | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 jump | det |
| 33 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 jump | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 vicious | cc |
| 35 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 savage | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 terrible | cc |
| 37 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 savage | conj |
| 38 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 attendant | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 attendant | det |
| 41 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 jump | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 took | cc |
| 44 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 took | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 arms | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 arms | nmod:poss |
| 48 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 took | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 bit | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 bit | cc |
| 51 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 took | parataxis |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 ear | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bit | obj |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 kissed | cc |
| 55 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 bit | conj |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 neck | nmod:poss |
| 57 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 kissed | obj |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 wept | cc |
| 59 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 bit | conj |
| 60 | down | down | ADV | _ | 59 wept | advmod |
| 61 | into | into | ADP | _ | 63 back | case |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 back | nmod:poss |
| 63 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 wept | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Mongan | Mongan's eyes | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Mongan | Duv | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duv=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Mongan | a great bound | Kevin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Product | |||
| 4 | take | past | Mongan not said here | Kevin | Mongan's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 5 | mac | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | make | past | a Da’v | a savage jump | the attendant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Product | |||
| 7 | take | past | Mongan not said here | Kevin | Mongan's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 8 | bite | past | Kevin's ear | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | |||||
| 9 | kiss | past | Kevin's neck | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Co-Agent | |||||
| 10 | weep down | past | Kevin's back | down property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into back=Recipient |
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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