Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 11

It beat on my scales and scorched them.

Who acts: air · What happens: beat, scorch · To what, where: scales

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 scales	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scales	nmod:poss
5	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scorched	cc
7	scorched	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scorched	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	air			my scales			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on scale=Location
2	scorch	past	air not said here	scales = scale					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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