Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 48
“There is a hazel bush overhanging a secret pool in a secret place.
Who acts: hazel bush · What happens: be, overhang · To what, where: secret pool, secret place
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hazel bush), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bush | det |
| 5 | hazel | hazel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bush | amod |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bush | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pool | amod |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overhanging | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overhanging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a hazel bush | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overhang in a quote | gerund | a hazel bush not said here | a secret pool | a secret place | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pool=Co-Theme |
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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