Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 28

She pondered and brooded revenge in her heart, sitting in thoughtful solitude and bitter collectedness until at last she had a plan.

Who acts: sister · What happens: ponder, brood, sit, have · To what, where: revenge, heart, thoughtful solitude, plan

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 (sister), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pondered	nsubj
2	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 brooded	cc
4	brooded	brood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pondered	conj
5	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brooded	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 heart	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heart	nmod:poss
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brooded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sitting	punct
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 brooded	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 solitude	case
12	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 solitude	amod
13	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 collectedness	cc
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 collectedness	amod
16	collectedness	collectedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 solitude	conj
17	until	until	ADP	_	19 last	case
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sitting	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 plan	det
23	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ponder	past	sister				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	brood	past	sister not said here	revenge	sister's heart		tree rules
3	sit	gerund	sister not said here		thoughtful solitude and bitter collectedness	until last	tree rules
4	have	past	sister	a plan			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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