Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 24

She took him in her arms and kissed him, and she sang a sleepy song until the small boy slept again.

Who acts: ear, small boy · What happens: take, kiss, sing, sleep · To what, where: cot, arms, sleepy song

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 (ear, small boy), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kissed	cc
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kissed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sang	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sang	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sang	nsubj
13	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 song	det
15	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 song	amod
16	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sang	obj
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 slept	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slept	nsubj
21	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sang	advcl
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 slept	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	ear	cot	ear's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
2	kiss	past	ear not said here	cot			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	sing speech: express	past	ear	a sleepy song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	sleep	past	the small boy			again	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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