Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 10

They calculated things by the shape of clouds, by lengths of shadows, by the flight of birds, by two flies racing on a flat stone, by throwing bones over their left shoulders, and by every kind of trick and game and chance that you could put a mind to.

Who acts: women, two flies, you · What happens: calculate, race, throw, put to · To what, where: things, flat stone, bones, left shoulders, mind

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, two flies, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calculated	nsubj
2	calculated	calculate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 calculated	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 shape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shape	det
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calculated	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shape	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lengths	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 lengths	case
11	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clouds	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 shadows	case
13	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lengths	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flight	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 flight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 flight	det
17	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calculated	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 birds	case
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flight	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flies	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 flies	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 flies	nummod
23	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flight	nmod
24	racing	race	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 flies	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 stone	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stone	det
27	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stone	amod
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 racing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 throwing	punct
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 throwing	mark
31	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 racing	conj
32	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throwing	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 shoulders	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shoulders	nmod:poss
35	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 shoulders	amod
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throwing	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 kind	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 kind	cc
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 kind	case
40	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	41 kind	det
41	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calculated	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 trick	case
43	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kind	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 game	cc
45	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 trick	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 chance	cc
47	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 trick	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 put	mark
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	51 put	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 put	aux
51	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 chance	acl
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 mind	det
53	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 put	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	51 put	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calculated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	calculate	past	women = woman	things		by the shape of clouds and lengths of shadows; by the flight of birds by two flies	tree rules
2	race	gerund	two flies not said here		a flat stone		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory
3	throw	gerund	two flies not said here	bones	women's left shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme over shoulder=Destination
4	put to	could	you	a mind			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mind=Goal

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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