Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 20
“And as he carried me to the palace he sang a song of the river, and a song of Doom, and a song in praise of the King of the Waters.
Who acts: flood, river, Doom · What happens: carry, sing, praise · To what, where: brown flood, palace, song, King
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 (flood, river, Doom), 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 | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 carried | cc |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 carried | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sang | nsubj |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 palace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 song | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 song | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 song | det |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Doom | case |
| 22 | Doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 song | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 song | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 song | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 song | det |
| 26 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 praise | case |
| 28 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 song | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 King | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 praise | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Waters | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Waters | det |
| 34 | Waters | Water | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 King | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | past | flood | the brown flood = flood | the palace | a song of Doom obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | flood | a song of the river | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing in a quote | the river | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing in a quote | Doom | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | praise in a quote | the King of the Waters | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=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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