Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15

Her face was fresh as a spring morning; her voice more cheerful than the cuckoo calling from the branch that is highest in the hedge; and her form swayed like a reed and flowed like a river, so that each person thought she would surely flow to him.

Who acts: face, cuckoo, branch, form, person, mother · What happens: be, call, sway, flow, think, form · To what, where: branch, hedge, person · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, cuckoo, branch, form), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fresh	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fresh	cop
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 morning	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 morning	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 morning	compound
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fresh	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cheerful	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 voice	nmod:poss
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cheerful	nsubj
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 cheerful	advmod
13	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fresh	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 cuckoo	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cuckoo	det
16	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cheerful	obl
17	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 cuckoo	acl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 branch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branch	det
20	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calling	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 highest	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 highest	cop
23	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 branch	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hedge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hedge	det
26	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 highest	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 swayed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 swayed	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 form	nmod:poss
30	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swayed	nsubj
31	swayed	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fresh	parataxis
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 reed	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 reed	det
34	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swayed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flowed	cc
36	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 reed	conj
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 river	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 river	det
39	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flowed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
41	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	45 thought	mark
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 so	fixed
43	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 person	det
44	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swayed	conj
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 flow	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 flow	aux
48	surely	surely	ADV	_	49 flow	advmod
49	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 thought	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 flow	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fresh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother's face			morning	fresh property	tree rules
2	call	gerund	the cuckoo not said here		the branch			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from branch=Source
3	is	present	the branch		the hedge		high property	tree rules
4	sway	past	mother's form				like a reed	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flow	participle	mother's form not said here				like a river	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	each person					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	flow	would	mother	person			surely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	form		mother					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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