Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 22

I was put over a fire and roasted, and she ate me.

Who acts: wife · What happens: put, roast, eat · To what, where: I, fire, me

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 (wife), 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	3 put	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux:pass
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 roasted	cc
8	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past · passive		I	a fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over fire=Destination
2	roast	past				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	eat	past	wife	me		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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