Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17
They took fright at the spectacle, and once or twice a woman screamed hysterically, and was bundled away with a companion’s hand clapped on her mouth, so that the ear of their master should not be affronted.
Who acts: groups, woman, hand · What happens: take, scream, bundle away, clap, not affront · To what, where: fright, spectacle, mouth, ear
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 (groups, woman, hand), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 spectacle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spectacle | det |
| 6 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 screamed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 screamed | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 screamed | advmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 twice | cc |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 once | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 screamed | nsubj |
| 14 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | hysterically | hysterically | ADV | _ | 14 screamed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bundled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bundled | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bundled | aux:pass |
| 19 | bundled | bundle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 bundled | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 26 clapped | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 companion | det |
| 23 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 companion | case |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clapped | nsubj |
| 26 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bundled | advcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 mouth | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clapped | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 affronted | punct |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 41 affronted | mark |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 so | fixed |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ear | det |
| 34 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 affronted | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 master | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 master | nmod:poss |
| 37 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ear | nmod |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 affronted | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 affronted | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 affronted | aux:pass |
| 41 | affronted | affront | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bundled | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | groups = group | fright | the spectacle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fright=Theme at spectacle=Asset | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | a woman | hysterically, once property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bundle away | past · passive | away property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | clap | past | a companion's hand | hand's mouth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mouth=Location | ||||
| 5 | not affront | should · passive | the ear of groups's master | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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