Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 34
It was then he saw the hag lying beside him, and he gave a great screech and jumped out of the bed.
Who acts: matter, hag, King · What happens: be, lie, give, jump out · To what, where: great screech, bed
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, hag, King), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hag | det |
| 7 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hag | acl |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 screech | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 screech | amod |
| 17 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 jumped | cc |
| 19 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | matter | then | see property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the hag not said here | beside King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | King | a great screech | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screech=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump out | past | King not said here | the bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory |
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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