Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 23
News was brought to Tlr na n-Og of the marriage of Iollan and Tuiren, and when Uct Dealv heard that news her heart ceased to beat for a moment, and she closed her eyes.
Who acts: Tlr, Uct, news · What happens: bring, hear, cease, beat, close, marry · To what, where: News, eyes, Iollan
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tlr, Uct, news), 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 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Tlr | case |
| 5 | Tlr | Tlr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl:agent |
| 6 | na | na | ADV | Typo=Yes | 5 Tlr | flat:foreign |
| 7 | n | n | X | _ | 5 Tlr | flat |
| 8 | - | - | X | _ | 7 n | goeswith |
| 9 | Og | Og | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 n | goeswith |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 marriage | det |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Og | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Iollan | case |
| 14 | Iollan | Iollan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 marriage | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Tuiren | cc |
| 16 | Tuiren | Tuiren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Iollan | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 heard | advmod |
| 20 | Uct | Uct | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | Dealv | Dealv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Uct | flat |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 ceased | mark |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ceased | nsubj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 news | nmod |
| 27 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 beat | mark |
| 29 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ceased | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 moment | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beat | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 closed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 closed | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 closed | nsubj |
| 36 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 closed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Tlr | News | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Uct | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | news Uct's heart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | beat | to-infinitive | news Uct's heart not said here | moment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | close | past | Uct | Uct's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | marry | Iollan and Tuiren | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=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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