Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 22
But, having said it, he bent his brow to his hand and for a long time he was silent and gathered into himself.
Who acts: Finegas · What happens: have, say, bend, be, gather · To what, where: master, brow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finegas), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 said | ccomp |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bent | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bent | nsubj |
| 8 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 silent | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 silent | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 silent | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 silent | cop |
| 21 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bent | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gathered | cc |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 gathered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | master | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bend | past | Finegas | Finegas's brow | to Finegas's hand result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent brow=Patient to hand=Result | |||
| 4 | is | past | Finegas | time | silent property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | gather | past | into Finegas | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent into himself=Co-Patient |
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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