Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVII, sentence 7
Mongan and his servant gave a jump of surprise, and their two wives jumped and squealed.
Who acts: Mongan, two wives, surprise · What happens: give, jump, squeal · To what, where: jump
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 (Mongan, two wives, surprise), 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 | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 servant | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 servant | nmod:poss |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mongan | conj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jump | det |
| 7 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jumped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wives | nummod |
| 14 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jumped | nsubj |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 squealed | cc |
| 17 | squealed | squeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 jumped | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Mongan and his servant | a jump of surprise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | Mongan's two wives | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | squeal | past | Mongan's two wives not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jump | surprise | nom jump «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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