Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 3
I went to my Ulster cave and dreamed my dream, and I changed into a hawk.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: go, dream, change · To what, where: Ulster cave, dream
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, my), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cave | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cave | compound |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dreamed | cc |
| 8 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dream | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dreamed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 changed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 changed | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 changed | nsubj |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hawk | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hawk | det |
| 17 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | my Ulster cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dream | past | I not said here | my dream | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | ||||
| 3 | change | past | I | into a hawk result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hawk=Result | ||||
| 4 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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