Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 2
Green and purple distances were under me: green and gold the sunlit regions above.
Who acts: Green distances · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Green distances), 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 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distances | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 purple | cc |
| 3 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Green | conj |
| 4 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 me | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 me | cop |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 green | punct |
| 9 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 me | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gold | cc |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 green | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 regions | det |
| 13 | sunlit | sunlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 regions | amod |
| 14 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 green | nmod |
| 15 | above | above | ADV | _ | 14 regions | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Green distances | under me | 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.
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