Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19
I had been a man, a stag, a boar, a bird, and now I was a fish.
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: man, fish
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 | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stag | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stag | det |
| 8 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boar | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boar | det |
| 11 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bird | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fish | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fish | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 fish | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 fish | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fish | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | I | a man and a stag and a boar and a bird and a fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | a fish | now | tree rules |
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/pg2892/9/19/