Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 10
One patronised women and instructed them and comforted them, for they were afraid about one.
Who acts: One, women · What happens: patronis, instruct, comfort, be · To what, where: women
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, women), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 instructed | nsubj |
| 2 | patronised | patronis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 women | amod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 instructed | cc |
| 5 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 instructed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 comforted | cc |
| 8 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 instructed | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comforted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 afraid | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 comforted | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 afraid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patronis | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | past | One patronised women | women = woman | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | comfort | past | One patronised women not said here | women = woman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | women = woman | about one; afraid property | 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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