Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVI. They met him near the place where the games were played, sentence 5
And then mac an Da’v began to sneeze, for he didn’t know what for.
Who acts: you, Da’v · What happens: mac, begin, sneeze, not know
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 (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mac | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mac | advmod |
| 3 | mac | mac | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Da’v | det |
| 5 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mac | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sneeze | mark |
| 8 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sneeze | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mac | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mac | imperative | you not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | a Da’v | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sneeze | to-infinitive | a Da’v not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Da’v = da'v | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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