Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 42

“The top of music is the ring of a spear on a shield,” cried the stout lad.

Who acts: top, ring · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: ring, stout lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top, ring), 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	_	8 ring	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 music	case
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ring	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 spear	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spear	det
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shield	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shield	det
14	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spear	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ring	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 ring	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lad	det
19	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lad	amod
20	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the top of music	the ring				of a spear on a shield	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the ring	the stout lad					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Topic

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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