Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 27
“How I flew through the soft element: how I joyed in the country where there is no harshness: in the element which upholds and gives way; which caresses and lets go, and will not let you fall.
Who acts: excellent wisdom, element, you · What happens: fly, joy, be, uphold, give, caress · To what, where: soft element, harshness, country, way, you
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 (excellent wisdom, element, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 flew | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 element | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 element | det |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 element | amod |
| 8 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 joyed | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 joyed | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 joyed | nsubj |
| 12 | joyed | joy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 harshness | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 harshness | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 harshness | det |
| 20 | harshness | harshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joyed | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 element | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 element | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 element | det |
| 24 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caresses | nsubj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 upholds | nsubj |
| 26 | upholds | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 element | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gives | cc |
| 28 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 upholds | conj |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gives | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 caresses | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 caresses | nsubj |
| 32 | caresses | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 harshness | acl:relcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lets | cc |
| 34 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 caresses | conj |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 lets | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 let | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 let | cc |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 let | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 let | advmod |
| 40 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 joyed | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 let | obj |
| 42 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 let | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | the soft element | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through element=Location | ||||
| 2 | joy in a quote | past | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | no harshness | the country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | uphold in a quote | present | the element | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present | the element not said here | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 6 | caress in a quote | present | the element | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | let in a quote | present | the element not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | go in a quote | infinitive | the element not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | not let in a quote | future | Tuatha's excellent wisdom and intelligence = wisdom not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | fall in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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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