Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XVIII, sentence 8
He took little slow steps, and he did not loosen his knees when he walked, so he went stiffly.
Who acts: pleasure · What happens: take, not loosen, walk, go · To what, where: little slow steps, knees
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XVIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steps | amod |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steps | amod |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loosen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 loosen | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 loosen | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loosen | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 loosen | advmod |
| 11 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 loosen | obj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 walked | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 loosen | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | pleasure | little slow steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not loosen | past · do-support | pleasure | pleasure's knees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knee=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | pleasure | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | pleasure | stiffly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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