Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 14
I knew every hill and stream; every field and glen of Ireland.
Who acts: I · What happens: know · To what, where: hill
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stream | cc |
| 6 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 field | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 glen | cc |
| 11 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 field | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ireland | case |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 glen | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | every hill and stream | every field and glen of Ireland obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hill=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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