Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 15
I knew the shape of cliffs and coasts, and how all places looked under the sun or moon.
Who acts: I, places · What happens: know, look · To what, where: shape
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, places), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shape | det |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cliffs | case |
| 6 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shape | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 coasts | cc |
| 8 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cliffs | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 looked | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 places | det |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 sun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 moon | cc |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sun | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | the shape of cliffs and coasts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | look | past | all places | under the sun or moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under sun=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/9/15/