Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 16
The Chamberlain of the fortress pushed into the room and he stared from one Tibraide’ to the other.
Who acts: Chamberlain · What happens: push, stare · To what, where: fortress, room
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chamberlain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chamberlain | det |
| 2 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fortress | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fortress | det |
| 5 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Chamberlain | nmod |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fortress | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stared | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stared | nsubj |
| 12 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stared | obl |
| 15 | Tibraide | Tibraide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Tibraide | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | participle | the fortress not said here | the room | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | the Chamberlain of the fortress | from one Tibraide to the other | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from one=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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