Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 31
A shallow, oblong dish of pure, pale gold was brought to him.
What happens: bring · To what, where: shallow oblong dish, Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 2 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dish | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 shallow | punct |
| 4 | oblong | oblong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dish | amod |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pure | punct |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gold | amod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dish | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux:pass |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a shallow oblong dish of pure pale gold | Fionn | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
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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